NC BL 09/00/2008 Table: Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL, Bulletin, January 2008 Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Civilian Private industry State and local government workers workers workers Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Worker and establishment characteristics Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All workers........................................................... $21.16 2.7 36.7 $20.90 3.1 36.5 $23.10 3.0 38.1 Worker characteristics(4)(5) Management, professional, and related............................... 32.89 2.1 39.0 33.88 2.3 39.2 28.80 3.3 38.2 Management, business, and financial............................... 36.55 3.5 40.9 36.92 3.8 41.1 32.54 3.8 39.6 Professional and related.......................................... 30.81 2.5 38.0 31.75 3.0 38.0 28.11 3.6 37.9 Service............................................................. 11.76 4.4 33.1 10.56 4.2 31.9 16.76 3.9 39.1 Sales and office.................................................... 17.46 3.9 35.9 17.45 4.0 35.8 17.59 11.1 38.5 Sales and related................................................. 18.82 8.9 33.9 18.82 8.9 33.9 – – – Office and administrative support................................. 16.64 2.3 37.2 16.55 2.3 37.1 17.59 11.1 38.5 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 19.99 4.7 39.8 20.08 5.1 39.7 18.99 9.7 40.0 Construction and extraction...................................... 18.18 7.8 38.6 18.05 8.6 38.4 19.21 11.8 40.0 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 21.33 3.5 40.7 21.50 3.8 40.7 18.69 7.3 40.0 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 15.32 9.7 36.8 15.26 10.1 37.1 17.01 4.6 30.7 Production........................................................ 15.25 5.3 39.1 15.21 5.4 39.1 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 15.37 16.5 35.3 15.29 17.5 35.7 16.60 3.7 29.8 Full time........................................................... 22.20 3.1 39.8 22.01 3.5 39.9 23.54 3.1 39.6 Part time........................................................... 10.84 4.6 20.7 10.73 4.9 20.7 12.75 7.7 20.1 Union............................................................... 25.43 22.9 37.7 25.76 25.2 37.4 – – – Nonunion............................................................ 20.93 2.6 36.7 20.63 2.9 36.5 23.14 3.0 38.0 Time................................................................ 20.66 3.0 36.6 20.30 3.5 36.4 23.10 3.0 38.1 Incentive........................................................... 27.20 8.4 38.3 27.20 8.4 38.3 – – – Establishment characteristics Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 21.96 3.3 39.8 (6) (6) (6) Service providing................................................... (6) (6) (6) – – – (6) (6) (6) 1-99 workers........................................................ 18.79 4.3 35.9 18.75 4.4 35.9 21.47 18.0 39.1 100-499 workers..................................................... 20.95 6.3 37.1 21.25 6.9 37.1 17.57 9.4 37.9 500 workers or more................................................. 24.86 4.8 37.6 25.02 6.8 37.5 24.50 2.5 38.1 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 5 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 6 Estimates for goods-producing and service-providing industries are published for private industry only. Industries are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $21.16 2.7 $22.20 3.1 $10.84 4.6 Management occupations.............................................. 42.14 4.0 42.30 3.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.99 9.3 23.99 9.3 – – Level 8 .................................................. 25.47 5.7 25.47 5.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 37.08 7.9 37.08 7.9 – – Level 11.................................................. 48.22 2.1 48.22 2.1 – – Level 12.................................................. 53.72 4.8 53.72 4.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 45.56 8.3 46.23 8.4 – – General and operations managers................................... 47.55 13.4 47.55 13.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 48.93 10.7 48.93 10.7 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 50.52 8.6 50.52 8.6 – – Sales managers.................................................. 49.61 9.4 49.61 9.4 – – Computer and information systems managers......................... 46.59 5.1 46.59 5.1 – – Financial managers................................................ 39.40 7.9 39.40 7.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 42.49 19.4 42.49 19.4 – – Construction managers............................................. 39.20 6.0 39.20 6.0 – – Education administrators.......................................... 38.57 9.9 38.57 9.9 – – Engineering managers.............................................. 42.75 3.2 42.75 3.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 41.41 1.0 41.41 1.0 – – Medical and health services managers.............................. 35.92 9.3 35.92 9.3 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 29.43 6.4 29.31 6.5 – – Level 6 .................................................. 14.79 11.4 14.79 11.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.45 5.1 23.45 5.1 – – Level 8 .................................................. 26.70 7.0 26.70 7.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 30.79 6.9 30.27 7.4 – – Level 11.................................................. 40.13 5.5 40.24 5.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 31.47 10.4 31.47 10.4 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 22.28 29.1 22.28 29.1 – – Training and development specialists............................ 17.45 21.4 17.45 21.4 – – Management analysts............................................... 36.52 17.2 36.52 17.2 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 26.87 7.1 26.23 7.3 – – Level 8 .................................................. 23.57 6.9 23.57 6.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.35 7.9 34.17 10.7 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 35.15 6.2 35.15 6.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.73 7.9 25.73 7.9 – – Level 8 .................................................. 31.11 3.8 31.11 3.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 29.43 2.6 29.43 2.6 – – Level 10.................................................. 37.55 2.8 37.55 2.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 45.95 4.9 45.95 4.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 30.65 11.9 30.65 11.9 – – Computer programmers.............................................. 34.49 7.0 34.49 7.0 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 41.25 7.1 41.25 7.1 – – Level 11.................................................. 44.52 8.4 44.52 8.4 – – Computer software engineers, applications....................... 45.18 7.0 45.18 7.0 – – Level 11.................................................. 46.54 7.2 46.54 7.2 – – Computer software engineers, systems software................... 36.67 5.4 36.67 5.4 – – Computer support specialists...................................... 29.19 9.1 29.19 9.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.05 5.0 25.05 5.0 – – Level 8 .................................................. 30.42 2.8 30.42 2.8 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 39.70 12.6 39.70 12.6 – – Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 35.60 6.4 35.60 6.4 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 29.57 6.4 29.64 5.6 – – Level 8 .................................................. 27.85 6.9 27.85 6.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.32 3.4 31.32 3.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 34.56 10.6 34.26 11.8 – – Engineers......................................................... 37.21 4.4 37.21 4.4 – – Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 34.26 9.4 34.26 9.4 – – Drafters.......................................................... 24.64 18.8 24.64 18.8 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.58 5.1 23.84 4.6 – – Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 23.24 6.8 23.24 6.8 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 24.28 6.9 24.28 6.9 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 20.74 11.5 20.84 11.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 17.53 4.9 17.53 4.9 – – Counselors........................................................ 25.15 20.3 25.15 20.3 – – Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 25.74 22.2 25.74 22.2 – – Social workers.................................................... 18.91 9.8 18.91 9.8 – – Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 14.35 5.5 14.27 6.1 – – Legal occupations................................................... 50.46 5.0 50.46 5.0 – – Lawyers........................................................... 61.56 4.0 61.56 4.0 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 29.39 1.1 29.92 1.5 14.24 20.2 Level 3 .................................................. 11.75 5.3 12.84 1.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.39 .2 14.39 .2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 32.62 3.3 33.68 3.0 – – Level 8 .................................................. 35.91 1.4 35.91 1.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 32.78 4.7 32.78 4.7 – – Level 11.................................................. 29.10 3.4 29.02 3.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 34.32 19.7 – – – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 32.85 8.0 33.56 8.3 – – Level 11.................................................. 28.55 2.8 28.43 3.3 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 33.25 3.8 33.25 3.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 34.74 3.4 34.74 3.4 – – Level 8 .................................................. 35.94 1.5 35.94 1.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.00 4.3 33.00 4.3 – – Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 22.97 28.5 22.97 28.5 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 34.18 1.1 34.18 1.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 34.67 2.0 34.67 2.0 – – Level 8 .................................................. 35.74 4.1 35.74 4.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.43 2.5 33.43 2.5 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 33.87 1.1 33.87 1.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 34.06 1.7 34.06 1.7 – – Level 8 .................................................. 34.26 2.2 34.26 2.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.84 1.8 33.84 1.8 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 35.18 3.2 35.18 3.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 36.11 5.4 36.11 5.4 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 34.57 3.7 34.57 3.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 38.05 3.5 38.05 3.5 – – Level 8 .................................................. 35.04 2.7 35.04 2.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.61 11.6 31.61 11.6 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 33.86 3.5 33.86 3.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 37.96 4.0 37.96 4.0 – – Level 8 .................................................. 34.42 4.4 34.42 4.4 – – Special education teachers...................................... 37.10 8.0 37.10 8.0 – – Other teachers and instructors.................................... 28.11 7.4 31.04 5.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.29 13.8 – – – – Teacher assistants................................................ 13.34 3.4 13.84 .8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.75 5.3 12.84 1.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.39 .2 14.39 .2 – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 25.74 22.2 26.70 23.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 40.06 24.0 41.34 23.5 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 28.23 7.1 29.01 6.4 22.31 22.0 Level 5 .................................................. 17.46 3.9 17.52 4.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.92 14.9 20.92 14.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 17.75 15.0 18.90 11.0 – – Level 8 .................................................. 27.43 3.3 27.11 3.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 29.16 2.1 28.63 2.4 – – Level 10.................................................. 47.41 16.5 47.57 16.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 48.72 25.8 48.67 26.3 – – Pharmacists....................................................... 48.50 2.3 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 29.69 5.1 29.71 5.8 29.47 2.0 Level 7 .................................................. 24.78 11.0 24.70 12.0 – – Level 8 .................................................. 28.65 4.7 28.53 5.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 28.58 1.5 28.52 1.8 – – Therapists........................................................ 27.97 16.1 26.29 16.7 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 24.36 .7 – – – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 26.84 2.9 – – – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.79 3.1 17.86 3.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.31 6.1 – – – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.49 3.9 12.88 3.1 9.94 7.8 Level 2 .................................................. 11.47 5.9 11.51 6.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 10.60 7.9 10.82 8.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.76 5.7 13.84 5.9 – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.75 4.9 10.96 4.8 9.92 8.0 Level 3 .................................................. 9.96 4.4 10.00 3.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.10 3.3 13.24 4.1 – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.12 2.6 12.11 3.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.34 4.9 10.96 6.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.10 3.3 13.24 4.1 – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 15.76 4.9 15.82 4.9 – – Medical assistants.............................................. 14.18 6.6 14.26 6.9 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 16.74 5.5 16.86 5.3 13.50 29.2 Level 3 .................................................. 10.60 2.8 10.68 3.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.38 6.7 14.01 5.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 15.42 5.8 15.42 5.8 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.84 3.8 19.05 5.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 17.07 11.8 17.07 11.8 – – First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 23.97 7.4 23.97 7.4 – – First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 25.25 3.1 25.25 3.1 – – Fire fighters..................................................... 17.77 6.9 18.08 7.5 – – Level 6 .................................................. 16.56 4.0 16.94 1.0 – – Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 14.56 10.5 14.66 9.5 – – Correctional officers and jailers............................... 14.66 9.5 14.66 9.5 – – Police officers................................................... 19.25 4.0 19.25 4.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.17 10.5 21.17 10.5 – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 19.25 4.0 19.25 4.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.17 10.5 21.17 10.5 – – Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 12.52 8.0 12.24 5.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 10.68 3.0 10.68 3.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.57 9.5 – – – – Security guards................................................. 12.52 8.0 12.24 5.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 10.68 3.0 10.68 3.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.57 9.5 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.13 4.8 8.70 14.6 7.04 8.4 Level 1 .................................................. 6.43 7.9 6.45 26.1 6.42 9.1 Level 2 .................................................. 6.37 11.3 6.17 23.4 6.73 11.4 Level 3 .................................................. 8.78 16.5 8.54 21.6 9.70 3.8 Level 4 .................................................. 12.50 5.6 12.91 5.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 12.98 3.8 12.98 3.8 – – First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 14.16 8.3 14.67 9.0 – – First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 14.51 9.2 15.15 11.0 – – Cooks............................................................. 11.25 7.7 11.73 5.4 9.35 7.1 Level 2 .................................................. 8.31 1.6 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 9.92 2.2 9.76 6.5 – – Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 13.58 14.1 13.74 15.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.02 6.2 11.25 3.8 – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 11.63 8.2 11.99 5.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 10.06 2.6 – – – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.89 12.1 10.54 6.7 – – Level 1 .................................................. 10.01 8.2 10.01 8.2 – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.29 3.4 4.33 19.6 4.15 45.7 Level 1 .................................................. 5.13 7.8 6.35 15.3 – – Level 2 .................................................. 3.28 9.9 3.22 13.0 – – Bartenders...................................................... 5.55 15.0 – – – – Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.24 13.7 3.50 .5 – – Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 6.92 20.1 6.92 22.6 – – Level 1 .................................................. 6.74 21.1 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.61 .5 9.02 4.3 6.80 2.6 Level 1 .................................................. 6.75 2.3 – – 6.75 2.3 Level 2 .................................................. 7.92 5.1 8.55 .6 – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 7.77 2.2 9.54 10.3 6.88 2.4 Level 1 .................................................. 6.81 3.2 – – 6.81 3.2 Level 2 .................................................. 8.70 11.1 – – – – Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 7.14 6.8 – – – – Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 5.12 29.1 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.93 3.1 11.03 3.3 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.89 3.3 8.96 3.8 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.68 4.3 10.63 4.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.85 5.1 11.85 5.1 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.42 2.8 10.50 3.0 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.89 3.3 8.96 3.8 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.65 7.4 10.53 10.1 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.07 6.9 12.07 6.9 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.75 3.0 10.90 3.0 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.76 2.0 8.83 2.9 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.71 8.1 10.59 11.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.21 7.3 12.21 7.3 – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.15 7.4 9.15 7.4 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.83 7.9 8.83 7.9 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 17.78 11.4 19.04 17.2 13.05 30.6 Level 2 .................................................. 8.39 3.0 – – 8.20 3.4 Level 3 .................................................. 10.95 11.3 – – – – Child care workers................................................ 9.35 5.3 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 18.82 8.9 21.66 9.3 9.02 3.2 Level 1 .................................................. 7.30 4.3 – – 7.17 4.2 Level 2 .................................................. 8.92 .4 9.83 2.7 8.26 3.9 Level 3 .................................................. 10.72 2.5 11.47 4.1 9.42 3.1 Level 4 .................................................. 14.65 9.7 15.18 8.8 11.68 8.9 Level 5 .................................................. 19.17 10.7 19.17 10.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 17.69 6.3 17.64 6.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 37.02 20.3 37.02 20.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.85 24.0 25.76 25.0 – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 25.43 24.9 25.43 24.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 17.14 2.6 17.14 2.6 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 17.68 3.5 17.68 3.5 – – Level 6 .................................................. 17.14 2.6 17.14 2.6 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.92 7.6 14.08 10.5 8.70 1.9 Level 1 .................................................. 7.30 4.3 – – 7.17 4.2 Level 2 .................................................. 8.92 .4 9.83 2.7 8.26 3.9 Level 3 .................................................. 10.69 2.7 11.51 4.5 9.36 3.3 Level 4 .................................................. 15.37 16.0 16.66 13.0 10.77 3.1 Level 5 .................................................. 23.87 6.9 23.87 6.9 – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.97 2.3 10.00 3.7 8.00 3.8 Level 1 .................................................. 7.25 4.0 – – 7.19 4.8 Level 2 .................................................. 8.92 2.0 9.82 1.9 8.28 3.0 Level 3 .................................................. 10.54 4.6 10.78 5.4 – – Cashiers...................................................... 8.97 2.3 10.00 3.7 8.00 3.8 Level 1 .................................................. 7.25 4.0 – – 7.19 4.8 Level 2 .................................................. 8.92 2.0 9.82 1.9 8.28 3.0 Level 3 .................................................. 10.54 4.6 10.78 5.4 – – Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 16.74 7.7 18.11 6.4 – – Counter and rental clerks..................................... 14.20 14.1 14.20 14.1 – – Parts salespersons............................................ 18.22 17.8 21.18 9.2 – – Retail salespersons............................................. 13.62 12.5 15.77 9.2 9.65 1.8 Level 2 .................................................. 8.73 8.6 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 10.90 3.4 – – 8.89 1.5 Level 4 .................................................. 15.22 18.7 16.81 15.4 10.77 3.1 Insurance sales agents............................................ 32.69 39.2 32.69 39.2 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 48.24 25.1 51.05 28.1 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 34.87 11.3 37.22 12.8 – – Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 19.67 28.3 19.67 28.3 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.64 2.3 16.95 2.4 11.98 4.9 Level 1 .................................................. 10.36 12.2 10.43 13.7 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.62 4.1 11.94 4.5 10.16 7.4 Level 3 .................................................. 13.16 3.7 13.69 3.9 11.04 11.6 Level 4 .................................................. 15.15 1.8 15.15 1.9 15.15 6.7 Level 5 .................................................. 19.12 2.6 19.12 2.6 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.10 5.3 22.10 5.3 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.66 8.0 25.66 8.0 – – Level 8 .................................................. 24.24 10.3 24.24 10.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.83 4.5 17.04 4.4 – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 20.73 8.8 20.73 8.8 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 16.99 4.9 17.30 4.9 13.60 6.6 Level 4 .................................................. 14.88 3.8 14.77 4.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.12 2.5 18.12 2.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.42 4.7 16.88 5.3 – – Bill and account collectors..................................... 18.24 12.7 18.24 12.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.45 8.3 15.45 8.3 – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 17.14 4.6 17.14 4.6 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 16.83 7.2 17.09 7.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.81 9.4 12.94 10.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.92 3.8 17.92 3.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.61 3.3 15.61 3.3 – – Tellers......................................................... 14.42 3.0 – – – – Customer service representatives.................................. 16.59 4.8 16.59 4.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.51 1.9 14.51 1.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.68 6.2 18.68 6.2 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.41 4.1 13.78 4.1 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.16 6.2 – – – – Dispatchers....................................................... 18.63 8.1 18.63 8.1 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.94 1.5 13.94 1.5 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 13.27 5.8 13.52 6.3 – – Level 1 .................................................. 12.31 4.8 – – – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.28 5.9 19.39 6.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.19 10.5 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.76 3.2 14.86 3.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.10 9.4 20.10 9.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.62 9.9 19.62 9.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 27.08 13.2 27.08 13.2 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 22.94 8.5 22.94 8.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.37 3.6 19.37 3.6 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.77 7.4 21.77 7.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 27.27 14.2 27.27 14.2 – – Medical secretaries............................................. 13.29 4.1 13.38 4.9 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.49 4.0 15.53 4.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.08 3.4 15.15 3.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 15.92 2.5 15.92 2.5 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 15.81 5.8 16.48 5.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.84 4.3 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.17 5.1 15.66 5.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.65 7.4 18.65 7.4 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.18 7.8 18.18 7.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.25 3.4 15.25 3.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.79 4.7 16.75 4.8 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.07 3.8 24.07 3.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.67 6.0 23.67 6.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.04 5.6 16.04 5.6 – – First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................... 26.68 4.7 26.68 4.7 – – Carpenters........................................................ 20.21 8.1 20.23 8.2 – – Construction laborers............................................. 11.55 7.8 11.55 7.8 – – Electricians...................................................... 22.60 8.9 22.60 8.9 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.33 3.5 21.33 3.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.28 4.1 12.28 4.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.38 4.4 14.38 4.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.51 9.8 19.51 9.8 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.50 3.4 24.50 3.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.10 5.0 23.10 5.0 – – Level 8 .................................................. 29.74 4.0 29.74 4.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.99 10.3 19.99 10.3 – – First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 24.67 7.0 24.67 7.0 – – Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 27.55 2.7 27.55 2.7 – – Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers................................................ 27.55 2.7 27.55 2.7 – – Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 19.68 4.8 19.68 4.8 – – Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 19.91 4.7 19.91 4.7 – – Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 17.99 10.7 17.99 10.7 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 17.74 8.7 17.74 8.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.30 10.8 18.30 10.8 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.92 12.1 17.92 12.1 – – Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 14.02 3.1 14.02 3.1 – – Production occupations.............................................. 15.25 5.3 15.09 5.4 – – Level 1 .................................................. 11.33 18.6 8.74 3.9 – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.93 1.8 9.98 1.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 17.04 4.2 17.04 4.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.53 7.7 14.48 7.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.34 12.0 16.34 12.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.10 5.5 18.10 5.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.90 5.9 24.90 5.9 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 23.31 8.1 23.31 8.1 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 16.68 4.5 16.68 4.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 22.87 9.7 22.87 9.7 – – Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 11.97 11.3 11.97 11.3 – – Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 16.41 12.9 16.41 12.9 – – Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 16.32 15.1 16.32 15.1 – – Sewing machine operators.......................................... 12.82 23.6 – – – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 15.10 18.8 15.10 18.8 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 15.23 9.0 13.99 5.9 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.37 16.5 16.42 18.4 8.64 6.9 Level 1 .................................................. 9.02 2.5 9.83 3.4 7.40 4.0 Level 2 .................................................. 10.64 4.0 10.52 4.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.64 4.4 12.74 4.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.13 4.6 17.16 4.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.91 8.9 19.91 8.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 23.67 5.5 23.67 5.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.36 17.4 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators.................... 22.22 8.0 22.22 8.0 – – Bus drivers....................................................... 16.08 4.6 17.35 2.9 14.52 4.0 Level 3 .................................................. 17.84 3.1 18.37 4.6 – – Bus drivers, school............................................. 16.08 4.6 17.35 2.9 14.52 4.0 Level 3 .................................................. 17.84 3.1 18.37 4.6 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 14.50 7.5 15.37 5.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.64 10.8 12.21 8.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.22 5.6 17.24 5.7 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.79 6.4 16.79 6.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.18 6.5 17.18 6.5 – – Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 11.75 10.6 13.37 5.3 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.03 3.3 14.03 3.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.30 6.1 13.30 6.1 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 9.89 3.0 10.39 3.1 7.95 3.0 Level 1 .................................................. 8.87 1.6 9.52 2.0 7.68 2.0 Level 2 .................................................. 10.05 4.5 10.06 4.9 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.03 6.3 12.03 6.3 – – Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 9.03 4.2 9.19 3.5 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.02 5.0 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.15 3.9 10.70 4.6 7.96 2.1 Level 1 .................................................. 9.18 3.4 9.90 1.9 7.80 1.0 Level 2 .................................................. 9.66 3.8 9.76 4.9 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.97 6.7 11.97 6.7 – – Machine feeders and offbearers.................................. 11.12 3.1 11.11 3.4 – – Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 8.86 7.3 9.57 6.5 7.61 4.4 Level 1 .................................................. 7.87 4.3 – – 7.61 4.4 Level 2 .................................................. 9.55 5.5 9.55 5.5 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $20.90 3.1 $22.01 3.5 $10.73 4.9 Management occupations.............................................. 42.07 4.2 42.25 4.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.99 9.3 23.99 9.3 – – Level 8 .................................................. 25.35 6.0 25.35 6.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 37.32 8.3 37.32 8.3 – – Level 11.................................................. 48.04 2.2 48.04 2.2 – – Level 12.................................................. 54.56 5.1 54.56 5.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 45.50 8.7 46.21 8.8 – – General and operations managers................................... 47.55 13.4 47.55 13.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 48.93 10.7 48.93 10.7 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 50.52 8.6 50.52 8.6 – – Sales managers.................................................. 49.61 9.4 49.61 9.4 – – Computer and information systems managers......................... 46.59 5.1 46.59 5.1 – – Financial managers................................................ 39.11 8.2 39.11 8.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 42.49 19.4 42.49 19.4 – – Construction managers............................................. 39.20 6.0 39.20 6.0 – – Engineering managers.............................................. 42.75 3.2 42.75 3.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 41.41 1.0 41.41 1.0 – – Medical and health services managers.............................. 36.81 10.2 36.81 10.2 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 29.99 7.1 29.87 7.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 14.62 11.4 14.62 11.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.24 5.0 24.24 5.0 – – Level 8 .................................................. 26.93 8.2 26.93 8.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 30.92 7.6 30.33 8.3 – – Level 11.................................................. 41.25 5.5 41.44 5.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 31.92 11.1 31.92 11.1 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 21.99 35.1 21.99 35.1 – – Management analysts............................................... 37.77 17.7 37.77 17.7 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 26.48 9.2 25.55 9.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.87 9.8 – – – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 35.40 6.2 35.40 6.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.43 8.0 26.43 8.0 – – Level 8 .................................................. 31.17 3.9 31.17 3.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 28.89 1.7 28.89 1.7 – – Level 10.................................................. 37.55 2.8 37.55 2.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 46.12 5.1 46.12 5.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 30.65 11.9 30.65 11.9 – – Computer programmers.............................................. 34.59 8.4 34.59 8.4 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 41.25 7.1 41.25 7.1 – – Level 11.................................................. 44.52 8.4 44.52 8.4 – – Computer software engineers, applications....................... 45.18 7.0 45.18 7.0 – – Level 11.................................................. 46.54 7.2 46.54 7.2 – – Computer software engineers, systems software................... 36.67 5.4 36.67 5.4 – – Computer support specialists...................................... 29.43 9.6 29.43 9.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.16 5.4 25.16 5.4 – – Level 8 .................................................. 30.42 2.8 30.42 2.8 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 39.34 13.5 39.34 13.5 – – Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 35.60 6.4 35.60 6.4 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 29.68 7.0 29.76 6.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 34.56 10.6 34.26 11.8 – – Engineers......................................................... 38.81 4.0 38.81 4.0 – – Drafters.......................................................... 24.64 18.8 24.64 18.8 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.11 5.1 23.27 4.7 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 24.45 8.2 24.45 8.2 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 17.26 5.5 17.26 5.5 – – Legal occupations................................................... 50.46 5.0 50.46 5.0 – – Lawyers........................................................... 61.56 4.0 61.56 4.0 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 26.34 4.0 26.60 4.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 31.64 17.0 – – – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 32.98 19.9 35.05 24.5 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 25.26 21.5 25.26 21.5 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 34.47 12.5 34.47 12.5 – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 28.96 24.0 30.27 24.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 46.94 21.0 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 29.26 7.6 30.26 6.5 22.22 22.5 Level 5 .................................................. 17.78 4.4 – – – – Level 6 .................................................. 25.91 5.3 25.91 5.3 – – Level 7 .................................................. 17.54 16.9 18.95 12.9 – – Level 8 .................................................. 27.43 3.3 27.11 3.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 29.21 1.8 28.65 2.2 – – Level 10.................................................. 47.41 16.5 47.57 16.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 48.72 25.8 48.67 26.3 – – Pharmacists....................................................... 48.50 2.3 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 30.57 4.8 30.72 5.5 29.47 2.0 Level 7 .................................................. 29.39 7.4 – – – – Level 8 .................................................. 28.65 4.7 28.53 5.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 28.84 1.2 28.82 1.4 – – Therapists........................................................ 27.97 17.5 26.09 18.5 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 24.22 .5 – – – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 26.84 2.9 – – – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.26 3.0 19.59 2.4 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.73 4.5 13.18 3.6 9.32 6.0 Level 3 .................................................. 10.38 8.4 10.69 9.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.43 5.1 14.43 5.1 – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.76 5.7 11.07 5.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 9.81 4.3 10.00 3.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.24 4.1 13.24 4.1 – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.36 3.0 12.34 3.1 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.32 7.0 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.24 4.1 13.24 4.1 – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.63 1.6 16.73 1.5 – – Medical assistants.............................................. 15.09 5.4 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 13.12 9.1 13.09 8.1 – – Level 3 .................................................. 10.58 3.1 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.49 10.0 13.87 6.5 – – Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 12.59 8.4 12.30 5.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 10.64 3.2 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.57 9.5 – – – – Security guards................................................. 12.59 8.4 12.30 5.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 10.64 3.2 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.57 9.5 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.86 4.1 8.31 13.6 7.04 8.4 Level 1 .................................................. 6.43 7.9 6.45 26.1 6.42 9.1 Level 2 .................................................. 6.30 11.5 6.05 23.9 6.73 11.4 Level 3 .................................................. 8.47 17.5 8.14 23.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.12 .0 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 12.86 1.4 13.26 3.4 – – First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 13.07 2.6 13.57 6.4 – – Cooks............................................................. 11.13 8.7 11.61 6.2 9.40 7.2 Level 2 .................................................. 8.25 1.3 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 9.88 2.0 9.63 7.0 – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 11.63 8.2 11.99 5.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 10.06 2.6 – – – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.48 11.8 10.01 6.6 – – Level 1 .................................................. 10.01 8.2 10.01 8.2 – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.22 2.3 4.24 18.1 4.15 45.7 Level 1 .................................................. 5.13 7.8 6.35 15.3 – – Level 2 .................................................. 3.09 7.1 – – – – Bartenders...................................................... 5.55 15.0 – – – – Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.24 13.7 3.50 .5 – – Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 6.74 21.1 – – – – Level 1 .................................................. 6.74 21.1 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.56 .5 8.98 4.3 6.77 2.6 Level 1 .................................................. 6.75 2.3 – – 6.75 2.3 Level 2 .................................................. 7.92 5.1 8.55 .6 – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 7.75 2.1 9.54 10.3 6.84 2.5 Level 1 .................................................. 6.81 3.2 – – 6.81 3.2 Level 2 .................................................. 8.70 11.1 – – – – Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 7.01 6.8 – – – – Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 5.12 29.1 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.21 3.4 10.24 3.7 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.80 3.7 8.86 4.2 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.37 5.3 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.60 5.1 11.60 5.1 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.73 3.6 9.71 4.1 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.80 3.7 8.86 4.2 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.63 7.7 11.63 7.7 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 9.86 4.4 9.85 5.2 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.55 2.3 8.63 3.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.74 8.4 11.74 8.4 – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.15 7.4 9.15 7.4 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.83 7.9 8.83 7.9 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 18.23 13.1 19.67 20.8 13.18 31.2 Child care workers................................................ 9.40 5.8 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 18.82 8.9 21.66 9.3 9.02 3.2 Level 1 .................................................. 7.30 4.3 – – 7.17 4.2 Level 2 .................................................. 8.92 .4 9.83 2.7 8.26 3.9 Level 3 .................................................. 10.72 2.5 11.47 4.1 9.42 3.1 Level 4 .................................................. 14.65 9.7 15.18 8.8 11.68 8.9 Level 5 .................................................. 19.17 10.7 19.17 10.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 17.69 6.3 17.64 6.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 37.02 20.3 37.02 20.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.85 24.0 25.76 25.0 – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 25.43 24.9 25.43 24.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 17.14 2.6 17.14 2.6 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 17.68 3.5 17.68 3.5 – – Level 6 .................................................. 17.14 2.6 17.14 2.6 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.92 7.6 14.08 10.5 8.70 1.9 Level 1 .................................................. 7.30 4.3 – – 7.17 4.2 Level 2 .................................................. 8.92 .4 9.83 2.7 8.26 3.9 Level 3 .................................................. 10.69 2.7 11.51 4.5 9.36 3.3 Level 4 .................................................. 15.37 16.0 16.66 13.0 10.77 3.1 Level 5 .................................................. 23.87 6.9 23.87 6.9 – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.97 2.3 10.00 3.7 8.00 3.8 Level 1 .................................................. 7.25 4.0 – – 7.19 4.8 Level 2 .................................................. 8.92 2.0 9.82 1.9 8.28 3.0 Level 3 .................................................. 10.54 4.6 10.78 5.4 – – Cashiers...................................................... 8.97 2.3 10.00 3.7 8.00 3.8 Level 1 .................................................. 7.25 4.0 – – 7.19 4.8 Level 2 .................................................. 8.92 2.0 9.82 1.9 8.28 3.0 Level 3 .................................................. 10.54 4.6 10.78 5.4 – – Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 16.74 7.7 18.11 6.4 – – Counter and rental clerks..................................... 14.20 14.1 14.20 14.1 – – Parts salespersons............................................ 18.22 17.8 21.18 9.2 – – Retail salespersons............................................. 13.62 12.5 15.77 9.2 9.65 1.8 Level 2 .................................................. 8.73 8.6 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 10.90 3.4 – – 8.89 1.5 Level 4 .................................................. 15.22 18.7 16.81 15.4 10.77 3.1 Insurance sales agents............................................ 32.69 39.2 32.69 39.2 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 48.24 25.1 51.05 28.1 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 34.87 11.3 37.22 12.8 – – Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 19.67 28.3 19.67 28.3 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.55 2.3 16.86 2.3 12.14 4.9 Level 1 .................................................. 10.36 12.2 10.43 13.7 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.43 3.6 11.65 3.8 10.37 7.9 Level 3 .................................................. 13.27 4.0 13.83 4.1 11.16 12.0 Level 4 .................................................. 15.18 1.9 15.17 2.0 15.29 6.7 Level 5 .................................................. 19.27 2.8 19.27 2.8 – – Level 6 .................................................. 23.07 4.7 23.07 4.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.64 3.1 23.64 3.1 – – Level 8 .................................................. 24.24 10.3 24.24 10.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.83 4.5 17.04 4.4 – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 20.43 9.1 20.43 9.1 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 17.04 5.1 17.38 5.0 13.60 6.6 Level 4 .................................................. 15.02 4.0 14.91 4.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.03 2.4 18.03 2.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.42 4.7 16.88 5.3 – – Bill and account collectors..................................... 18.24 12.7 18.24 12.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.45 8.3 15.45 8.3 – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 17.14 4.6 17.14 4.6 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 16.90 7.6 17.18 7.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.84 11.3 13.00 12.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.56 3.0 17.56 3.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.61 3.3 15.61 3.3 – – Tellers......................................................... 14.42 3.0 – – – – Customer service representatives.................................. 16.66 5.1 16.66 5.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.54 1.9 14.54 1.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.34 6.9 19.34 6.9 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.41 4.1 13.78 4.1 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.16 6.2 – – – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.94 1.5 13.94 1.5 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 13.40 5.9 13.68 6.4 – – Level 1 .................................................. 12.31 4.8 – – – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.06 5.3 19.16 5.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.63 3.7 14.69 3.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.47 10.2 20.47 10.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.56 3.0 23.56 3.0 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 21.47 3.1 21.47 3.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.37 3.6 19.37 3.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.49 3.3 23.49 3.3 – – Medical secretaries............................................. 13.39 4.6 13.50 5.6 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.57 5.5 15.57 5.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.85 4.4 14.85 4.4 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 15.79 6.0 16.48 5.2 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.84 4.3 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.38 5.2 15.95 6.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.55 7.9 18.55 7.9 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.05 8.6 18.05 8.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.79 4.7 16.75 4.8 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.11 4.1 24.11 4.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.91 8.2 23.91 8.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.04 5.6 16.04 5.6 – – First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................... 27.12 6.4 27.12 6.4 – – Carpenters........................................................ 20.21 8.1 20.23 8.2 – – Electricians...................................................... 22.66 9.7 22.66 9.7 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.50 3.8 21.50 3.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.28 4.1 12.28 4.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.60 4.8 14.60 4.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.83 10.3 19.83 10.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.83 3.6 24.83 3.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 22.82 5.7 22.82 5.7 – – Level 8 .................................................. 29.74 4.0 29.74 4.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.99 10.3 19.99 10.3 – – First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 25.10 8.7 25.10 8.7 – – Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 27.92 3.0 27.92 3.0 – – Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers................................................ 27.92 3.0 27.92 3.0 – – Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 19.71 5.2 19.71 5.2 – – Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 19.96 5.1 19.96 5.1 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.12 9.4 18.12 9.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.50 12.1 18.50 12.1 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 18.82 14.2 18.82 14.2 – – Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 14.02 3.1 14.02 3.1 – – Production occupations.............................................. 15.21 5.4 15.04 5.5 – – Level 1 .................................................. 11.33 18.6 8.74 3.9 – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.93 1.8 9.98 1.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 17.04 4.2 17.04 4.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.53 7.7 14.48 7.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.34 12.0 16.34 12.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.10 5.5 18.10 5.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.43 6.3 25.43 6.3 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 23.31 8.1 23.31 8.1 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 16.68 4.5 16.68 4.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 22.87 9.7 22.87 9.7 – – Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 11.97 11.3 11.97 11.3 – – Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 16.41 12.9 16.41 12.9 – – Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 16.32 15.1 16.32 15.1 – – Sewing machine operators.......................................... 12.82 23.6 – – – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 15.10 18.8 15.10 18.8 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 15.23 9.0 13.99 5.9 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.29 17.5 16.37 19.4 7.88 4.8 Level 1 .................................................. 9.02 2.5 9.83 3.4 7.40 4.0 Level 2 .................................................. 10.40 4.4 10.43 4.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.14 4.1 12.28 3.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.20 5.1 17.22 5.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.86 9.2 19.86 9.2 – – First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators.................... 22.55 8.6 22.55 8.6 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 14.36 7.8 15.27 5.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.02 10.2 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.32 5.8 17.34 5.9 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.76 6.9 16.76 6.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.29 6.8 17.29 6.8 – – Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 11.53 11.2 13.17 5.9 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.03 3.3 14.03 3.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.30 6.1 13.30 6.1 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 9.89 3.0 10.39 3.1 7.95 3.0 Level 1 .................................................. 8.87 1.6 9.52 2.0 7.68 2.0 Level 2 .................................................. 10.05 4.5 10.06 4.9 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.03 6.3 12.03 6.3 – – Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 9.03 4.2 9.19 3.5 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.02 5.0 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.15 3.9 10.70 4.6 7.96 2.1 Level 1 .................................................. 9.18 3.4 9.90 1.9 7.80 1.0 Level 2 .................................................. 9.66 3.8 9.76 4.9 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.97 6.7 11.97 6.7 – – Machine feeders and offbearers.................................. 11.12 3.1 11.11 3.4 – – Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 8.86 7.3 9.57 6.5 7.61 4.4 Level 1 .................................................. 7.87 4.3 – – 7.61 4.4 Level 2 .................................................. 9.55 5.5 9.55 5.5 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. Table 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $23.10 3.0 $23.54 3.1 $12.75 7.7 Management occupations.............................................. 43.09 7.1 43.00 7.0 – – Education administrators.......................................... 44.01 7.9 44.01 7.9 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 24.91 5.1 24.91 5.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 20.24 4.4 20.24 4.4 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 28.07 7.3 28.07 7.3 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 30.65 5.6 30.65 5.6 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 25.78 16.5 26.23 16.4 – – Counselors........................................................ 37.15 5.0 37.15 5.0 – – Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 14.46 7.8 – – – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 30.22 .9 30.80 1.6 11.24 29.1 Level 3 .................................................. 11.75 5.3 12.84 1.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.38 .3 14.38 .3 – – Level 7 .................................................. 32.93 1.3 33.68 1.5 – – Level 8 .................................................. 35.35 .3 35.35 .3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.70 .9 34.70 .9 – – Level 11.................................................. 29.01 3.5 28.92 4.0 – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 32.78 7.7 32.85 7.7 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 34.90 .4 34.90 .4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 34.88 1.6 34.88 1.6 – – Level 8 .................................................. 35.40 .4 35.40 .4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.78 .7 34.78 .7 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 34.14 .2 34.14 .2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 33.84 .2 33.84 .2 – – Level 8 .................................................. 34.25 1.3 34.25 1.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.57 .4 34.57 .4 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 34.19 .9 34.19 .9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 33.84 1.7 33.84 1.7 – – Level 8 .................................................. 34.26 2.2 34.26 2.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.74 .7 34.74 .7 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 33.94 2.7 33.94 2.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 33.83 6.0 33.83 6.0 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 36.03 1.8 36.03 1.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 37.69 4.9 37.69 4.9 – – Level 8 .................................................. 35.04 2.7 35.04 2.7 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 35.31 1.2 35.31 1.2 – – Level 8 .................................................. 34.42 4.4 34.42 4.4 – – Special education teachers...................................... 37.10 8.0 37.10 8.0 – – Other teachers and instructors.................................... 25.66 16.2 – – – – Teacher assistants................................................ 13.11 3.9 13.70 .1 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.75 5.3 12.84 1.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.38 .3 14.38 .3 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 18.21 9.3 17.97 8.6 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.89 5.9 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 18.89 3.7 19.00 4.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.05 6.0 16.05 6.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.84 3.8 19.05 5.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 17.07 11.8 17.07 11.8 – – First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 23.97 7.4 23.97 7.4 – – First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 25.25 3.1 25.25 3.1 – – Fire fighters..................................................... 16.45 3.1 16.67 1.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 16.56 4.0 16.94 1.0 – – Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 14.56 10.5 14.66 9.5 – – Correctional officers and jailers............................... 14.66 9.5 14.66 9.5 – – Police officers................................................... 19.25 4.0 19.25 4.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.17 10.5 21.17 10.5 – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 19.25 4.0 19.25 4.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.17 10.5 21.17 10.5 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 15.01 21.3 15.23 22.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.12 9.7 – – – – Cooks............................................................. 12.77 25.1 13.05 28.2 – – Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 12.77 25.1 13.05 28.2 – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 14.25 8.0 14.52 8.4 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.29 4.3 13.58 4.9 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.42 4.4 13.58 4.9 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 12.68 19.8 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.59 11.1 17.95 11.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.06 7.5 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.89 7.5 14.97 7.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.68 6.4 17.68 6.4 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.30 22.4 20.50 22.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.18 6.4 – – – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.30 4.4 15.43 4.7 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 19.21 11.8 19.21 11.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.11 2.6 23.11 2.6 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.69 7.3 18.69 7.3 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.60 3.7 17.34 1.5 14.52 4.0 Level 3 .................................................. 17.50 3.2 17.80 4.6 – – Bus drivers....................................................... 16.08 4.6 17.35 2.9 14.52 4.0 Level 3 .................................................. 17.84 3.1 18.37 4.6 – – Bus drivers, school............................................. 16.08 4.6 17.35 2.9 14.52 4.0 Level 3 .................................................. 17.84 3.1 18.37 4.6 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. Table 5. Combined work levels(1) for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(2) for full-time and part-time workers(3), Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $21.16 2.7 $22.20 3.1 $10.84 4.6 Management occupations.............................................. 42.14 4.0 42.30 3.9 – – Group II.................................................. 24.68 4.6 – – – – Group III................................................. 44.33 2.4 – – – – General and operations managers................................... 47.55 13.4 47.55 13.4 – – Group III................................................. 46.07 10.3 46.07 10.3 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 50.52 8.6 50.52 8.6 – – Sales managers.................................................. 49.61 9.4 49.61 9.4 – – Computer and information systems managers......................... 46.59 5.1 46.59 5.1 – – Group III................................................. 44.60 8.2 44.60 8.2 – – Financial managers................................................ 39.40 7.9 39.40 7.9 – – Group III................................................. 44.81 13.8 44.81 13.8 – – Construction managers............................................. 39.20 6.0 39.20 6.0 – – Education administrators.......................................... 38.57 9.9 38.57 9.9 – – Group III................................................. 46.14 7.0 – – – – Engineering managers.............................................. 42.75 3.2 42.75 3.2 – – Group III................................................. 42.75 3.2 42.75 3.2 – – Medical and health services managers.............................. 35.92 9.3 35.92 9.3 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 29.43 6.4 29.31 6.5 – – Group II.................................................. 21.67 11.0 – – – – Group III................................................. 38.35 3.3 – – – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 22.28 29.1 22.28 29.1 – – Group II.................................................. 17.44 26.4 – – – – Training and development specialists............................ 17.45 21.4 17.45 21.4 – – Management analysts............................................... 36.52 17.2 36.52 17.2 – – Group III................................................. 39.90 14.3 39.90 14.3 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 26.87 7.1 26.23 7.3 – – Group II.................................................. 22.64 3.1 22.64 3.1 – – Group III................................................. 35.76 6.0 36.03 7.5 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 35.15 6.2 35.15 6.2 – – Group II.................................................. 26.91 5.8 – – – – Group III................................................. 40.21 5.0 – – – – Computer programmers.............................................. 34.49 7.0 34.49 7.0 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 41.25 7.1 41.25 7.1 – – Group III................................................. 41.62 5.4 – – – – Computer software engineers, applications....................... 45.18 7.0 45.18 7.0 – – Group III................................................. 44.36 6.7 44.36 6.7 – – Computer software engineers, systems software................... 36.67 5.4 36.67 5.4 – – Group III................................................. 38.29 3.2 38.29 3.2 – – Computer support specialists...................................... 29.19 9.1 29.19 9.1 – – Group II.................................................. 27.19 2.9 27.19 2.9 – – Group III................................................. 38.28 14.3 38.28 14.3 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 39.70 12.6 39.70 12.6 – – Group III................................................. 45.23 11.7 45.23 11.7 – – Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 35.60 6.4 35.60 6.4 – – Group III................................................. 37.43 .0 37.43 .0 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 29.57 6.4 29.64 5.6 – – Group II.................................................. 23.10 7.1 – – – – Group III................................................. 34.28 4.8 – – – – Engineers......................................................... 37.21 4.4 37.21 4.4 – – Group III................................................. 34.81 4.8 – – – – Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 34.26 9.4 34.26 9.4 – – Drafters.......................................................... 24.64 18.8 24.64 18.8 – – Group II.................................................. 23.64 20.9 – – – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.58 5.1 23.84 4.6 – – Group II.................................................. 23.60 5.2 – – – – Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 23.24 6.8 23.24 6.8 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 24.28 6.9 24.28 6.9 – – Group II.................................................. 19.70 11.4 – – – – Group III................................................. 28.32 5.2 – – – – Community and social services occupations........................... 20.74 11.5 20.84 11.6 – – Group II.................................................. 17.18 4.2 – – – – Group III................................................. 33.79 12.8 – – – – Counselors........................................................ 25.15 20.3 25.15 20.3 – – Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 25.74 22.2 25.74 22.2 – – Social workers.................................................... 18.91 9.8 18.91 9.8 – – Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 14.35 5.5 14.27 6.1 – – Legal occupations................................................... 50.46 5.0 50.46 5.0 – – Group III................................................. 49.60 7.6 – – – – Lawyers........................................................... 61.56 4.0 61.56 4.0 – – Group III................................................. 52.25 1.7 52.25 1.7 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 29.39 1.1 29.92 1.5 14.24 20.2 Group I................................................... 13.36 3.6 – – – – Group II.................................................. 31.99 5.1 – – – – Group III................................................. 33.40 4.6 – – – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 32.85 8.0 33.56 8.3 – – Group III................................................. 34.28 9.8 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 33.25 3.8 33.25 3.8 – – Group II.................................................. 33.46 6.4 – – – – Group III................................................. 33.00 4.3 – – – – Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 22.97 28.5 22.97 28.5 – – Group II.................................................. 22.97 28.5 – – – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 34.18 1.1 34.18 1.1 – – Group II.................................................. 35.01 .6 – – – – Group III................................................. 33.43 2.5 – – – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 33.87 1.1 33.87 1.1 – – Group II.................................................. 34.13 1.9 34.13 1.9 – – Group III................................................. 33.84 1.8 33.84 1.8 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 35.18 3.2 35.18 3.2 – – Group II.................................................. 37.58 2.0 37.58 2.0 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 34.57 3.7 34.57 3.7 – – Group II.................................................. 36.22 1.3 – – – – Group III................................................. 31.61 11.6 – – – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 33.86 3.5 33.86 3.5 – – Group II.................................................. 35.83 1.9 35.83 1.9 – – Special education teachers...................................... 37.10 8.0 37.10 8.0 – – Other teachers and instructors.................................... 28.11 7.4 31.04 5.1 – – Group II.................................................. 28.13 8.9 – – – – Teacher assistants................................................ 13.34 3.4 13.84 .8 – – Group I................................................... 13.36 3.6 13.87 .8 – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 25.74 22.2 26.70 23.2 – – Group II.................................................. 14.39 10.8 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 28.23 7.1 29.01 6.4 22.31 22.0 Group II.................................................. 20.51 9.2 – – – – Group III................................................. 36.63 6.8 – – – – Pharmacists....................................................... 48.50 2.3 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 29.69 5.1 29.71 5.8 29.47 2.0 Group II.................................................. 27.31 5.4 27.20 5.9 – – Group III................................................. 31.71 7.2 31.95 8.1 – – Therapists........................................................ 27.97 16.1 26.29 16.7 – – Group II.................................................. 17.85 15.9 – – – – Group III................................................. 34.20 1.8 – – – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 24.36 .7 – – – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 26.84 2.9 – – – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.79 3.1 17.86 3.4 – – Group II.................................................. 17.79 3.1 17.86 3.4 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.49 3.9 12.88 3.1 9.94 7.8 Group I................................................... 11.68 7.9 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.75 4.9 10.96 4.8 9.92 8.0 Group I................................................... 10.76 5.0 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.12 2.6 12.11 3.0 – – Group I................................................... 12.12 2.6 12.11 3.0 – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 15.76 4.9 15.82 4.9 – – Group I................................................... 14.36 9.4 – – – – Medical assistants.............................................. 14.18 6.6 14.26 6.9 – – Group I................................................... 13.32 13.7 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 16.74 5.5 16.86 5.3 13.50 29.2 Group I................................................... 11.96 6.3 – – – – Group II.................................................. 18.40 2.4 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 23.97 7.4 23.97 7.4 – – First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 25.25 3.1 25.25 3.1 – – Fire fighters..................................................... 17.77 6.9 18.08 7.5 – – Group II.................................................. 16.46 4.0 16.77 2.2 – – Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 14.56 10.5 14.66 9.5 – – Correctional officers and jailers............................... 14.66 9.5 14.66 9.5 – – Police officers................................................... 19.25 4.0 19.25 4.0 – – Group II.................................................. 19.25 4.0 – – – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 19.25 4.0 19.25 4.0 – – Group II.................................................. 19.25 4.0 19.25 4.0 – – Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 12.52 8.0 12.24 5.4 – – Group I................................................... 11.79 6.2 – – – – Security guards................................................. 12.52 8.0 12.24 5.4 – – Group I................................................... 11.79 6.2 11.46 3.5 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.13 4.8 8.70 14.6 7.04 8.4 Group I................................................... 7.54 4.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 15.22 10.5 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 14.16 8.3 14.67 9.0 – – Group II.................................................. 16.88 11.1 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 14.51 9.2 15.15 11.0 – – Group II.................................................. 18.41 11.3 – – – – Cooks............................................................. 11.25 7.7 11.73 5.4 9.35 7.1 Group I................................................... 10.89 8.4 – – – – Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 13.58 14.1 13.74 15.5 – – Group I................................................... 12.35 17.4 12.52 19.3 – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 11.63 8.2 11.99 5.5 – – Group I................................................... 11.49 8.7 11.88 6.2 – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.89 12.1 10.54 6.7 – – Group I................................................... 8.89 12.1 10.54 6.7 – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.29 3.4 4.33 19.6 4.15 45.7 Group I................................................... 4.29 3.4 – – – – Bartenders...................................................... 5.55 15.0 – – – – Group I................................................... 5.55 15.0 – – – – Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.24 13.7 3.50 .5 – – Group I................................................... 3.24 13.7 3.50 .5 – – Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 6.92 20.1 6.92 22.6 – – Group I................................................... 6.92 20.1 6.92 22.6 – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.61 .5 9.02 4.3 6.80 2.6 Group I................................................... 7.58 .5 – – – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 7.77 2.2 9.54 10.3 6.88 2.4 Group I................................................... 7.77 2.2 9.54 10.3 6.88 2.4 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 7.14 6.8 – – – – Group I................................................... 7.01 6.8 – – – – Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 5.12 29.1 – – – – Group I................................................... 5.12 29.1 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.93 3.1 11.03 3.3 – – Group I................................................... 10.34 3.3 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.42 2.8 10.50 3.0 – – Group I................................................... 10.11 4.2 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.75 3.0 10.90 3.0 – – Group I................................................... 10.38 4.9 10.47 5.5 – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.15 7.4 9.15 7.4 – – Group I................................................... 9.01 7.2 9.01 7.2 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 17.78 11.4 19.04 17.2 13.05 30.6 Group I................................................... 9.61 8.7 – – – – Child care workers................................................ 9.35 5.3 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 18.82 8.9 21.66 9.3 9.02 3.2 Group I................................................... 11.60 7.0 – – – – Group II.................................................. 22.79 8.6 – – – – Group III................................................. 50.37 6.3 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 25.43 24.9 25.43 24.9 – – Group II.................................................. 15.87 8.2 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 17.68 3.5 17.68 3.5 – – Group II.................................................. 17.50 3.3 17.50 3.3 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.92 7.6 14.08 10.5 8.70 1.9 Group I................................................... 11.12 9.0 – – – – Group II.................................................. 23.94 6.9 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.97 2.3 10.00 3.7 8.00 3.8 Group I................................................... 8.90 2.3 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 8.97 2.3 10.00 3.7 8.00 3.8 Group I................................................... 8.90 2.3 9.96 3.8 7.97 3.9 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 16.74 7.7 18.11 6.4 – – Group I................................................... 13.18 8.6 – – – – Counter and rental clerks..................................... 14.20 14.1 14.20 14.1 – – Group I................................................... 14.20 14.1 14.20 14.1 – – Parts salespersons............................................ 18.22 17.8 21.18 9.2 – – Retail salespersons............................................. 13.62 12.5 15.77 9.2 9.65 1.8 Group I................................................... 13.35 14.6 15.68 11.6 9.51 1.7 Insurance sales agents............................................ 32.69 39.2 32.69 39.2 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 48.24 25.1 51.05 28.1 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 34.87 11.3 37.22 12.8 – – Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 19.67 28.3 19.67 28.3 – – Group II.................................................. 27.12 7.3 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.64 2.3 16.95 2.4 11.98 4.9 Group I................................................... 13.91 1.4 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.11 2.7 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 20.73 8.8 20.73 8.8 – – Group II.................................................. 22.71 6.2 22.71 6.2 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 16.99 4.9 17.30 4.9 13.60 6.6 Group I................................................... 14.47 4.2 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.28 5.1 – – – – Bill and account collectors..................................... 18.24 12.7 18.24 12.7 – – Group I................................................... 15.45 8.3 15.45 8.3 – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 17.14 4.6 17.14 4.6 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 16.83 7.2 17.09 7.2 – – Group I................................................... 12.81 8.4 12.94 10.0 – – Group II.................................................. 19.90 8.0 19.90 8.0 – – Tellers......................................................... 14.42 3.0 – – – – Customer service representatives.................................. 16.59 4.8 16.59 4.8 – – Group I................................................... 14.40 1.2 14.40 1.2 – – Group II.................................................. 20.44 5.4 20.44 5.4 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.41 4.1 13.78 4.1 – – Group I................................................... 12.13 6.3 12.51 6.3 – – Dispatchers....................................................... 18.63 8.1 18.63 8.1 – – Group I................................................... 16.52 7.2 – – – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.94 1.5 13.94 1.5 – – Group I................................................... 14.62 2.2 14.62 2.2 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 13.27 5.8 13.52 6.3 – – Group I................................................... 12.90 5.5 13.15 6.1 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.28 5.9 19.39 6.0 – – Group I................................................... 14.16 4.2 – – – – Group II.................................................. 22.08 7.8 – – – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 22.94 8.5 22.94 8.5 – – Group II.................................................. 22.94 8.5 22.94 8.5 – – Medical secretaries............................................. 13.29 4.1 13.38 4.9 – – Group I................................................... 12.76 3.8 12.82 4.6 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.49 4.0 15.53 4.1 – – Group I................................................... 14.78 4.5 14.83 4.5 – – Group II.................................................. 15.60 2.4 15.60 2.4 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 15.81 5.8 16.48 5.0 – – Group I................................................... 14.00 6.9 14.61 6.4 – – Group II.................................................. 19.23 6.8 19.23 6.8 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.18 7.8 18.18 7.9 – – Group I................................................... 12.41 5.5 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.54 3.9 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................... 26.68 4.7 26.68 4.7 – – Group II.................................................. 26.04 7.5 26.04 7.5 – – Carpenters........................................................ 20.21 8.1 20.23 8.2 – – Construction laborers............................................. 11.55 7.8 11.55 7.8 – – Electricians...................................................... 22.60 8.9 22.60 8.9 – – Group II.................................................. 21.83 7.9 21.83 7.9 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.33 3.5 21.33 3.5 – – Group I................................................... 13.06 3.4 – – – – Group II.................................................. 23.14 3.0 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 24.67 7.0 24.67 7.0 – – Group II.................................................. 24.67 7.0 24.67 7.0 – – Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 27.55 2.7 27.55 2.7 – – Group II.................................................. 26.98 4.8 – – – – Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers................................................ 27.55 2.7 27.55 2.7 – – Group II.................................................. 26.98 4.8 26.98 4.8 – – Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 19.68 4.8 19.68 4.8 – – Group II.................................................. 24.20 15.5 – – – – Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 19.91 4.7 19.91 4.7 – – Group II.................................................. 25.06 14.3 25.06 14.3 – – Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 17.99 10.7 17.99 10.7 – – Group II.................................................. 17.99 10.7 17.99 10.7 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 17.74 8.7 17.74 8.7 – – Group II.................................................. 18.74 8.1 – – – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.92 12.1 17.92 12.1 – – Group II.................................................. 20.32 11.7 20.32 11.7 – – Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 14.02 3.1 14.02 3.1 – – Group I................................................... 14.32 3.5 – – – – Production occupations.............................................. 15.25 5.3 15.09 5.4 – – Group I................................................... 13.28 5.0 – – – – Group II.................................................. 19.46 8.1 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 23.31 8.1 23.31 8.1 – – Group II.................................................. 23.01 8.1 23.01 8.1 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 16.68 4.5 16.68 4.5 – – Group I................................................... 17.23 6.1 – – – – Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 11.97 11.3 11.97 11.3 – – Group I................................................... 11.97 11.3 – – – – Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 16.41 12.9 16.41 12.9 – – Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 16.32 15.1 16.32 15.1 – – Sewing machine operators.......................................... 12.82 23.6 – – – – Group I................................................... 12.82 23.6 – – – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 15.10 18.8 15.10 18.8 – – Group I................................................... 13.40 18.2 13.40 18.2 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 15.23 9.0 13.99 5.9 – – Group I................................................... 14.72 9.9 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.37 16.5 16.42 18.4 8.64 6.9 Group I................................................... 11.69 3.6 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.02 7.4 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators.................... 22.22 8.0 22.22 8.0 – – Group II.................................................. 22.51 10.0 22.51 10.0 – – Bus drivers....................................................... 16.08 4.6 17.35 2.9 14.52 4.0 Group I................................................... 16.08 4.7 – – – – Bus drivers, school............................................. 16.08 4.6 17.35 2.9 14.52 4.0 Group I................................................... 16.08 4.7 17.35 2.9 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 14.50 7.5 15.37 5.4 – – Group I................................................... 14.18 7.6 – – – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.79 6.4 16.79 6.4 – – Group I................................................... 16.37 7.3 16.37 7.3 – – Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 11.75 10.6 13.37 5.3 – – Group I................................................... 11.75 10.6 13.37 5.3 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.03 3.3 14.03 3.3 – – Group I................................................... 13.90 3.4 13.90 3.4 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 9.89 3.0 10.39 3.1 7.95 3.0 Group I................................................... 9.80 3.0 – – – – Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 9.03 4.2 9.19 3.5 – – Group I................................................... 9.03 4.2 9.19 3.5 – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.15 3.9 10.70 4.6 7.96 2.1 Group I................................................... 10.07 3.6 10.61 4.6 7.96 2.1 Machine feeders and offbearers.................................. 11.12 3.1 11.11 3.4 – – Group I................................................... 10.86 6.2 – – – – Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 8.86 7.3 9.57 6.5 7.61 4.4 Group I................................................... 8.86 7.3 9.57 6.5 7.61 4.4 1 Combined work levels simplify the presentation of work levels by combining levels 1 through 15 into four broad groups. Group I combines levels 1-4, group II combines levels 5-8, group III combines levels 9-12, and group IV combines levels 13-15. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $8.50 $11.36 $16.75 $26.92 $39.44 Management occupations.............................................. 20.45 28.79 40.87 50.48 64.90 General and operations managers................................... 20.05 30.07 41.99 64.90 69.71 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 43.27 43.27 43.27 58.78 72.12 Sales managers.................................................. 43.27 43.27 43.27 58.78 61.98 Computer and information systems managers......................... 35.33 41.63 48.38 52.11 57.38 Financial managers................................................ 17.80 25.00 33.60 54.22 61.32 Construction managers............................................. 23.86 28.11 37.50 41.28 64.90 Education administrators.......................................... 21.00 24.42 42.48 49.14 51.99 Engineering managers.............................................. 36.25 38.46 42.00 44.19 49.08 Medical and health services managers.............................. 26.92 26.92 36.22 37.20 55.70 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 14.51 20.18 25.64 35.64 48.10 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 12.24 12.24 14.51 26.60 44.31 Training and development specialists............................ 12.24 12.24 12.24 19.16 32.28 Management analysts............................................... 22.00 22.30 34.79 41.86 57.60 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 18.27 21.64 22.26 33.35 37.83 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 20.77 26.56 33.73 40.87 48.12 Computer programmers.............................................. 28.26 28.32 33.84 37.34 42.00 Computer software engineers....................................... 28.25 33.65 40.38 47.85 52.89 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 35.00 38.87 44.25 49.50 57.69 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 26.73 30.94 34.52 43.27 48.12 Computer support specialists...................................... 19.23 21.78 26.56 34.12 43.59 Computer systems analysts......................................... 24.28 30.29 35.54 41.28 50.11 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 26.56 30.29 32.26 42.31 49.04 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 18.00 21.18 27.48 35.34 42.27 Engineers......................................................... 25.74 30.05 35.03 41.94 54.16 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 25.21 28.13 33.04 39.20 45.24 Drafters.......................................................... 17.00 18.00 21.39 31.09 39.70 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 18.60 21.18 24.52 26.19 28.38 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 18.47 19.23 21.18 26.19 28.38 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 14.43 20.19 23.70 26.56 34.62 Community and social services occupations........................... 14.79 16.47 17.61 19.91 35.98 Counselors........................................................ 15.70 18.91 18.91 34.10 42.78 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 15.70 18.91 18.91 35.14 43.24 Social workers.................................................... 16.62 16.62 16.62 18.93 24.66 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 11.45 12.07 14.79 15.12 16.84 Legal occupations................................................... 21.64 26.25 48.08 76.92 76.92 Lawyers........................................................... 39.60 48.08 64.25 76.92 76.92 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 12.98 20.00 31.18 36.17 42.81 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 19.00 26.15 30.02 35.14 63.57 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 21.66 28.39 33.91 38.78 43.87 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 8.25 10.10 18.13 35.08 40.88 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 25.17 29.61 33.91 38.17 43.43 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 25.34 29.35 33.27 37.64 43.34 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 25.05 30.43 33.91 41.54 43.55 Secondary school teachers....................................... 23.15 28.79 35.32 39.50 44.48 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 23.10 28.46 35.03 38.78 44.25 Special education teachers...................................... 27.67 34.83 37.12 44.30 44.39 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 10.53 20.10 32.35 34.63 36.06 Teacher assistants................................................ 9.38 11.15 14.18 14.92 17.28 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 9.78 14.42 19.57 26.99 69.66 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 13.69 18.11 25.84 31.82 50.76 Pharmacists....................................................... 44.25 46.23 48.25 51.50 52.42 Registered nurses................................................. 21.98 25.33 28.53 31.46 35.00 Therapists........................................................ 14.94 15.74 31.75 33.65 38.00 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 19.87 22.33 24.60 26.74 29.45 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 22.20 27.79 27.79 27.79 27.79 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 14.62 16.48 17.00 19.59 21.47 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.00 9.00 11.61 14.46 18.57 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 8.50 9.00 10.34 12.33 13.76 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.50 10.64 12.23 13.46 14.61 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 9.66 13.34 15.78 18.73 19.50 Medical assistants.............................................. 9.22 10.00 14.35 17.10 18.57 Protective service occupations...................................... 9.80 11.28 15.45 20.39 26.67 First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 13.68 18.35 25.97 30.02 33.07 First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 15.71 19.67 26.25 30.02 33.07 Fire fighters..................................................... 13.84 14.33 16.93 18.81 28.60 Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 10.20 11.60 13.25 17.15 20.56 Correctional officers and jailers............................... 10.20 11.60 13.34 17.16 20.56 Police officers................................................... 13.24 15.85 18.90 22.17 25.26 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 13.24 15.85 18.90 22.17 25.26 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 8.75 10.00 11.00 13.00 21.95 Security guards................................................. 8.75 10.00 11.00 13.00 21.95 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.18 5.85 8.00 11.00 12.80 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 10.50 11.36 11.58 16.51 18.55 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 10.50 11.56 12.50 18.27 18.55 Cooks............................................................. 7.75 9.00 11.13 12.50 14.55 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 8.56 10.25 12.32 18.74 19.07 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 8.75 9.95 12.00 13.10 14.55 Food preparation workers.......................................... 6.25 6.50 8.00 10.47 12.80 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.13 2.13 2.19 6.75 9.14 Bartenders...................................................... 3.72 3.72 5.12 7.25 7.25 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.13 2.13 2.18 2.19 7.93 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 2.13 5.85 6.90 9.00 9.75 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.00 6.00 7.00 8.55 10.25 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 6.00 6.00 7.25 8.88 10.25 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 5.85 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.17 Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 3.50 3.57 3.79 4.96 10.15 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.00 9.00 10.00 12.50 15.00 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.85 8.07 9.68 11.53 14.95 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.00 8.15 9.89 12.75 15.00 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 7.76 7.99 9.68 9.75 10.42 Personal care and service occupations............................... 7.76 8.50 11.89 17.80 49.28 Child care workers................................................ 8.00 8.00 9.04 10.29 10.29 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.25 9.36 12.50 20.20 38.22 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 12.25 14.80 17.66 33.66 52.70 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 13.29 15.86 17.66 21.60 21.98 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.00 8.50 10.03 13.36 19.61 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 6.50 7.25 8.50 10.25 12.05 Cashiers...................................................... 6.50 7.25 8.50 10.25 12.05 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 10.00 10.00 16.41 19.61 28.86 Counter and rental clerks..................................... 9.23 10.17 16.32 17.58 19.23 Parts salespersons............................................ 10.00 10.00 16.41 24.95 28.86 Retail salespersons............................................. 8.35 9.10 11.05 15.92 22.80 Insurance sales agents............................................ 11.54 14.54 21.65 37.42 60.14 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 18.37 25.00 38.46 60.87 65.59 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 15.00 19.40 34.14 44.78 60.87 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 9.00 9.00 10.00 26.25 46.29 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.75 13.00 15.71 19.56 24.04 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 12.05 16.85 20.60 26.97 29.03 Financial clerks.................................................. 11.28 14.00 16.41 19.13 23.46 Bill and account collectors..................................... 11.28 14.00 17.56 18.50 32.31 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 14.72 15.32 16.25 19.13 20.67 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.25 13.92 15.71 19.23 23.73 Tellers......................................................... 10.84 10.99 12.45 18.83 19.00 Customer service representatives.................................. 11.90 13.46 14.91 20.19 23.08 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 10.00 11.00 13.00 15.15 20.03 Dispatchers....................................................... 13.32 15.30 18.58 20.86 24.56 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 9.25 11.00 14.45 16.25 19.35 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 9.00 10.85 12.80 15.10 17.71 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 12.50 14.42 17.42 22.19 27.64 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 15.61 18.74 21.83 24.16 26.68 Medical secretaries............................................. 10.85 11.89 12.50 14.20 16.58 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.00 12.90 14.42 17.42 19.75 Office clerks, general............................................ 10.80 13.00 16.03 19.00 21.00 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 11.00 12.46 17.00 21.00 29.08 First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................... 17.00 21.19 26.88 32.13 37.50 Carpenters........................................................ 12.69 18.00 21.00 21.00 26.50 Construction laborers............................................. 8.50 10.00 11.70 13.00 14.00 Electricians...................................................... 18.86 18.97 18.97 27.06 32.95 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 12.00 15.37 20.90 28.05 30.00 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 20.53 20.53 21.37 27.94 36.83 Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 24.17 27.69 28.38 30.13 30.13 Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers................................................ 24.17 27.69 28.38 30.13 30.13 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 9.70 11.35 17.74 30.00 34.31 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 9.70 10.85 18.00 30.00 34.31 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 12.00 12.50 17.00 22.45 24.57 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 12.62 14.22 17.65 19.97 23.77 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 11.01 14.22 17.65 18.85 28.75 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 12.00 12.50 13.80 15.38 17.00 Production occupations.............................................. 8.03 10.00 13.75 18.50 26.44 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 16.00 17.60 22.12 26.44 33.94 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.22 10.75 14.25 23.42 28.22 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 9.05 9.05 12.75 13.00 15.75 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 10.86 11.50 16.50 17.44 28.70 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 10.86 11.32 15.30 17.50 28.70 Sewing machine operators.......................................... 7.76 7.76 12.39 17.42 18.25 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 8.03 8.03 12.77 17.50 29.45 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 8.25 9.00 14.30 20.27 23.00 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.00 9.06 11.71 15.52 22.37 First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators.................... 15.00 18.55 24.05 25.00 26.56 Bus drivers....................................................... 12.85 14.20 15.61 17.43 19.95 Bus drivers, school............................................. 12.85 14.20 15.61 17.43 19.95 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 8.38 11.71 12.50 16.49 22.37 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 11.71 12.00 15.00 21.81 22.37 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 5.40 8.38 12.50 14.12 17.59 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 10.50 12.50 14.98 15.52 16.65 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.25 8.45 9.90 11.25 12.59 Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 8.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 10.50 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.25 8.50 10.00 11.25 12.75 Machine feeders and offbearers.................................. 9.03 9.63 11.56 12.07 13.13 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 7.00 7.28 8.75 10.30 11.62 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $8.30 $11.00 $16.25 $26.25 $39.70 Management occupations.............................................. 20.44 28.74 40.77 50.48 64.90 General and operations managers................................... 20.05 30.07 41.99 64.90 69.71 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 43.27 43.27 43.27 58.78 72.12 Sales managers.................................................. 43.27 43.27 43.27 58.78 61.98 Computer and information systems managers......................... 35.33 41.63 48.38 52.11 57.38 Financial managers................................................ 17.80 25.00 33.60 54.22 61.32 Construction managers............................................. 23.86 28.11 37.50 41.28 64.90 Engineering managers.............................................. 36.25 38.46 42.00 44.19 49.08 Medical and health services managers.............................. 26.92 26.92 36.22 37.20 55.70 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 14.07 20.20 25.64 37.27 49.20 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 12.24 12.24 12.24 25.00 44.31 Management analysts............................................... 22.30 28.54 37.27 41.86 57.60 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 17.15 21.88 21.92 32.21 36.04 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 20.77 26.73 34.10 41.10 48.12 Computer programmers.............................................. 28.26 28.26 33.17 37.47 42.00 Computer software engineers....................................... 28.25 33.65 40.38 47.85 52.89 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 35.00 38.87 44.25 49.50 57.69 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 26.73 30.94 34.52 43.27 48.12 Computer support specialists...................................... 19.23 21.76 26.54 34.58 43.64 Computer systems analysts......................................... 24.25 29.50 34.62 39.30 50.11 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 26.56 30.29 32.26 42.31 49.04 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 18.00 20.33 26.80 35.90 42.80 Engineers......................................................... 26.80 31.97 35.82 42.27 59.73 Drafters.......................................................... 17.00 18.00 21.39 31.09 39.70 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 18.60 20.28 24.04 26.19 28.38 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 14.00 19.67 23.36 27.89 34.86 Community and social services occupations........................... 14.79 16.62 16.62 18.91 18.91 Legal occupations................................................... 21.64 26.25 48.08 76.92 76.92 Lawyers........................................................... 39.60 48.08 64.25 76.92 76.92 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 13.44 14.51 21.18 35.64 41.54 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 16.49 19.00 30.59 41.44 63.57 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 9.75 13.90 21.41 35.57 41.54 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 18.05 25.34 35.57 41.54 41.54 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 11.55 14.85 22.00 40.66 69.66 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 14.33 19.59 26.92 32.21 51.50 Pharmacists....................................................... 44.25 46.23 48.25 51.50 52.42 Registered nurses................................................. 23.39 26.50 29.21 31.77 36.23 Therapists........................................................ 14.94 14.94 32.21 33.65 38.00 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 19.87 22.20 24.46 26.46 29.52 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 22.20 27.79 27.79 27.79 27.79 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 16.01 17.01 19.59 20.93 23.69 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.00 9.00 11.85 15.34 18.73 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 8.30 9.00 10.11 12.23 13.95 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.55 11.02 12.45 13.70 14.88 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 11.80 14.46 17.10 19.50 19.50 Medical assistants.............................................. 10.00 13.99 15.00 18.57 18.57 Protective service occupations...................................... 8.48 10.00 11.00 14.40 24.10 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 8.50 10.00 11.00 13.00 21.95 Security guards................................................. 8.50 10.00 11.00 13.00 21.95 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.18 5.85 7.85 10.43 12.59 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 10.50 11.36 11.58 14.33 18.27 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 10.50 11.56 11.58 14.33 18.27 Cooks............................................................. 7.75 9.00 11.08 12.42 14.55 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 8.75 9.95 12.00 13.10 14.55 Food preparation workers.......................................... 6.25 6.50 8.00 9.18 12.80 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.13 2.13 2.19 5.85 9.00 Bartenders...................................................... 3.72 3.72 5.12 7.25 7.25 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.13 2.13 2.18 2.19 7.93 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 2.13 5.85 6.75 8.54 9.75 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.00 6.00 7.00 8.41 10.10 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 6.00 6.00 7.25 8.88 10.25 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 5.85 6.00 7.00 8.00 8.82 Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 3.50 3.57 3.79 4.96 10.15 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 7.99 8.50 10.00 11.00 13.25 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.67 8.07 9.30 10.97 13.00 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.50 8.07 9.30 10.97 13.25 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 7.76 7.99 9.68 9.75 10.42 Personal care and service occupations............................... 7.70 8.50 11.89 17.80 49.28 Child care workers................................................ 8.00 8.00 9.11 10.29 10.29 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.25 9.36 12.50 20.20 38.22 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 12.25 14.80 17.66 33.66 52.70 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 13.29 15.86 17.66 21.60 21.98 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.00 8.50 10.03 13.36 19.61 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 6.50 7.25 8.50 10.25 12.05 Cashiers...................................................... 6.50 7.25 8.50 10.25 12.05 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 10.00 10.00 16.41 19.61 28.86 Counter and rental clerks..................................... 9.23 10.17 16.32 17.58 19.23 Parts salespersons............................................ 10.00 10.00 16.41 24.95 28.86 Retail salespersons............................................. 8.35 9.10 11.05 15.92 22.80 Insurance sales agents............................................ 11.54 14.54 21.65 37.42 60.14 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 18.37 25.00 38.46 60.87 65.59 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 15.00 19.40 34.14 44.78 60.87 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 9.00 9.00 10.00 26.25 46.29 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.75 12.99 15.71 19.80 23.77 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 12.05 14.63 20.60 24.52 28.58 Financial clerks.................................................. 11.28 14.00 16.41 19.13 23.46 Bill and account collectors..................................... 11.28 14.00 17.56 18.50 32.31 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 14.72 15.32 16.25 19.13 20.67 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.25 14.00 15.71 19.23 23.73 Tellers......................................................... 10.84 10.99 12.45 18.83 19.00 Customer service representatives.................................. 11.90 13.46 15.00 20.29 23.37 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 10.00 11.00 13.00 15.15 20.03 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 9.25 11.00 14.45 16.25 19.35 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 9.00 11.25 12.80 15.10 17.85 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 12.50 14.42 18.57 22.72 26.68 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 15.71 18.74 21.83 24.04 26.33 Medical secretaries............................................. 10.85 12.22 12.53 14.54 16.70 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 11.00 12.50 14.42 17.42 20.00 Office clerks, general............................................ 10.80 13.00 16.03 18.03 21.00 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 10.40 12.46 17.00 21.00 31.00 First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................... 16.50 21.00 26.88 32.50 37.50 Carpenters........................................................ 12.69 18.00 21.00 21.00 26.50 Electricians...................................................... 18.86 18.97 18.97 27.06 32.95 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 12.00 15.37 21.36 28.38 30.00 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 20.53 20.53 21.37 27.94 36.83 Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 21.99 27.69 28.38 30.13 30.13 Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers................................................ 21.99 27.69 28.38 30.13 30.13 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 9.70 10.85 16.46 30.00 34.31 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 9.70 9.70 18.00 30.00 34.31 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 12.74 14.22 17.65 21.16 28.75 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 10.00 14.22 17.65 21.16 28.75 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 12.00 12.50 13.80 15.38 17.00 Production occupations.............................................. 8.03 10.00 13.64 18.16 26.44 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 16.00 17.60 22.12 26.44 33.94 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.22 10.75 14.25 23.42 28.22 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 9.05 9.05 12.75 13.00 15.75 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 10.86 11.50 16.50 17.44 28.70 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 10.86 11.32 15.30 17.50 28.70 Sewing machine operators.......................................... 7.76 7.76 12.39 17.42 18.25 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 8.03 8.03 12.77 17.50 29.45 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 8.25 9.00 14.30 20.27 23.00 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.00 9.00 11.56 15.35 22.37 First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators.................... 15.00 20.00 24.05 25.00 26.56 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 7.57 11.71 12.50 16.44 22.37 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 11.71 12.00 15.00 22.37 23.22 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 5.40 8.38 12.50 13.59 15.87 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 10.50 12.50 14.98 15.52 16.65 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.25 8.45 9.90 11.25 12.59 Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 8.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 10.50 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.25 8.50 10.00 11.25 12.75 Machine feeders and offbearers.................................. 9.03 9.63 11.56 12.07 13.13 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 7.00 7.28 8.75 10.30 11.62 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 8. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $11.10 $14.70 $20.10 $30.21 $38.25 Management occupations.............................................. 29.34 34.36 44.87 50.81 55.99 Education administrators.......................................... 26.92 38.66 46.05 50.81 54.39 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.27 19.63 23.28 28.27 34.13 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 18.54 19.94 27.38 34.54 37.83 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 20.31 26.07 28.16 34.83 46.21 Community and social services occupations........................... 12.15 16.35 21.83 35.98 43.24 Counselors........................................................ 27.68 32.13 37.61 43.24 47.09 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 11.33 11.87 14.39 16.32 18.12 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 12.96 23.71 32.01 36.47 43.04 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 23.71 27.71 29.30 35.14 35.86 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 26.39 30.60 34.76 39.16 44.39 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 25.87 30.02 33.49 37.76 43.63 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 25.93 29.81 33.04 37.72 43.65 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 25.70 30.37 33.91 38.17 43.09 Secondary school teachers....................................... 26.75 31.17 35.32 42.61 45.27 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 26.54 30.86 35.03 39.04 44.69 Special education teachers...................................... 27.67 34.83 37.12 44.30 44.39 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 10.53 20.10 32.35 34.63 34.63 Teacher assistants................................................ 9.14 10.73 12.86 15.25 18.33 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 13.69 13.69 16.97 19.32 26.45 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.05 9.48 10.54 12.40 13.34 Protective service occupations...................................... 12.04 14.58 17.99 22.17 28.11 First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 13.68 18.35 25.97 30.02 33.07 First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 15.71 19.67 26.25 30.02 33.07 Fire fighters..................................................... 13.78 14.14 16.14 17.74 20.15 Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 10.20 11.60 13.25 17.15 20.56 Correctional officers and jailers............................... 10.20 11.60 13.34 17.16 20.56 Police officers................................................... 13.24 15.85 18.90 22.17 25.26 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 13.24 15.85 18.90 22.17 25.26 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.56 9.14 12.89 19.07 28.43 Cooks............................................................. 8.18 8.56 11.13 19.07 19.07 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 8.18 8.56 11.13 19.07 19.07 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.27 10.67 13.57 18.22 20.44 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.60 9.50 12.67 17.26 19.18 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 9.23 10.07 12.80 17.26 19.18 Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.22 8.88 10.41 12.69 21.46 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.40 13.08 15.46 18.14 24.45 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 12.34 13.82 16.54 18.09 53.86 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.16 13.75 15.72 16.70 17.67 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 11.58 13.31 17.62 23.44 27.26 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 11.90 15.18 17.74 24.17 24.40 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 12.64 14.12 15.76 18.55 21.77 Bus drivers....................................................... 12.85 14.20 15.61 17.43 19.95 Bus drivers, school............................................. 12.85 14.20 15.61 17.43 19.95 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 9. Full-time(1) civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(2), Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Full-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $9.30 $12.24 $17.74 $28.00 $40.87 Management occupations.............................................. 20.45 28.85 41.27 50.48 64.90 General and operations managers................................... 20.05 30.07 41.99 64.90 69.71 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 43.27 43.27 43.27 58.78 72.12 Sales managers.................................................. 43.27 43.27 43.27 58.78 61.98 Computer and information systems managers......................... 35.33 41.63 48.38 52.11 57.38 Financial managers................................................ 17.80 25.00 33.60 54.22 61.32 Construction managers............................................. 23.86 28.11 37.50 41.28 64.90 Education administrators.......................................... 21.00 24.42 42.48 49.14 51.99 Engineering managers.............................................. 36.25 38.46 42.00 44.19 49.08 Medical and health services managers.............................. 26.92 26.92 36.22 37.20 55.70 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 14.51 19.98 25.64 35.64 48.10 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 12.24 12.24 14.51 26.60 44.31 Training and development specialists............................ 12.24 12.24 12.24 19.16 32.28 Management analysts............................................... 22.00 22.30 34.79 41.86 57.60 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 18.27 20.44 22.12 30.02 37.83 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 20.77 26.56 33.73 40.87 48.12 Computer programmers.............................................. 28.26 28.32 33.84 37.34 42.00 Computer software engineers....................................... 28.25 33.65 40.38 47.85 52.89 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 35.00 38.87 44.25 49.50 57.69 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 26.73 30.94 34.52 43.27 48.12 Computer support specialists...................................... 19.23 21.78 26.56 34.12 43.59 Computer systems analysts......................................... 24.28 30.29 35.54 41.28 50.11 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 26.56 30.29 32.26 42.31 49.04 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 18.00 21.18 27.40 35.27 42.27 Engineers......................................................... 25.74 30.05 35.03 41.94 54.16 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 25.21 28.13 33.04 39.20 45.24 Drafters.......................................................... 17.00 18.00 21.39 31.09 39.70 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 18.60 20.72 24.05 26.19 28.38 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 18.47 19.23 21.18 26.19 28.38 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 14.43 20.19 23.70 26.56 34.62 Community and social services occupations........................... 14.79 16.62 17.87 19.91 36.20 Counselors........................................................ 15.70 18.91 18.91 34.10 42.78 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 15.70 18.91 18.91 35.14 43.24 Social workers.................................................... 16.62 16.62 16.62 18.93 24.66 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 11.36 12.07 14.50 14.79 16.84 Legal occupations................................................... 21.64 26.25 48.08 76.92 76.92 Lawyers........................................................... 39.60 48.08 64.25 76.92 76.92 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 13.90 20.10 31.77 36.47 43.04 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 20.00 26.72 30.23 35.86 63.57 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 21.66 28.39 33.91 38.78 43.87 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 8.25 10.10 18.13 35.08 40.88 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 25.17 29.61 33.91 38.17 43.43 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 25.34 29.35 33.27 37.64 43.34 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 25.05 30.43 33.91 41.54 43.55 Secondary school teachers....................................... 23.15 28.79 35.32 39.50 44.48 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 23.10 28.46 35.03 38.78 44.25 Special education teachers...................................... 27.67 34.83 37.12 44.30 44.39 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 20.10 27.33 32.35 34.63 36.06 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.27 11.97 14.40 15.02 17.80 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 9.78 14.42 20.00 33.05 69.66 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 14.94 19.00 26.29 32.11 51.50 Registered nurses................................................. 21.90 25.02 28.53 31.33 35.04 Therapists........................................................ 14.94 14.94 30.94 33.65 33.65 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 14.42 16.66 17.00 19.59 21.64 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.00 9.46 12.23 15.40 18.73 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 8.87 9.00 10.98 12.32 14.09 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.45 10.38 12.23 13.49 14.77 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 9.66 13.34 15.81 18.73 19.50 Medical assistants.............................................. 9.22 10.00 14.35 17.10 18.57 Protective service occupations...................................... 10.00 11.50 15.70 20.59 26.67 First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 13.68 18.35 25.97 30.02 33.07 First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 15.71 19.67 26.25 30.02 33.07 Fire fighters..................................................... 14.14 14.90 17.16 19.47 28.60 Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 10.20 11.60 13.34 17.16 20.56 Correctional officers and jailers............................... 10.20 11.60 13.34 17.16 20.56 Police officers................................................... 13.24 15.85 18.90 22.17 25.26 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 13.24 15.85 18.90 22.17 25.26 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.93 17.00 Security guards................................................. 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.93 17.00 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.18 3.79 9.00 11.69 14.55 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 10.50 11.56 11.58 18.27 18.55 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 10.50 11.56 13.25 18.27 18.59 Cooks............................................................. 7.80 9.50 11.69 13.27 14.55 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 8.56 10.61 12.37 18.74 19.07 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.00 11.00 12.42 13.27 14.55 Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.00 8.50 9.84 12.80 13.69 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.13 2.18 2.19 5.85 9.75 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.13 2.13 2.18 2.19 7.93 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 2.13 5.85 6.90 9.14 9.75 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.90 8.00 8.82 10.25 11.75 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 7.50 8.31 9.25 11.00 12.25 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.00 9.00 10.00 12.50 15.00 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.85 8.07 9.68 12.23 14.95 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.00 8.15 9.50 13.00 15.00 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 7.76 7.99 9.68 9.75 10.42 Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.00 9.95 12.31 21.11 49.28 Sales and related occupations....................................... 9.00 10.73 15.45 24.54 46.06 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 12.25 14.80 17.66 33.66 52.70 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 13.29 15.86 17.66 21.60 21.98 Retail sales workers.............................................. 8.00 9.58 11.75 17.19 22.80 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.25 8.50 10.18 11.30 13.41 Cashiers...................................................... 7.25 8.50 10.18 11.30 13.41 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 9.36 13.36 17.58 22.50 28.86 Counter and rental clerks..................................... 9.23 10.17 16.32 17.58 19.23 Parts salespersons............................................ 13.36 15.96 19.61 24.95 30.00 Retail salespersons............................................. 9.27 10.73 13.08 18.75 26.21 Insurance sales agents............................................ 11.54 14.54 21.65 37.42 60.14 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 19.23 27.89 40.86 60.87 65.59 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 19.23 25.00 34.14 44.78 60.87 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 9.00 9.00 10.00 26.25 46.29 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 11.25 13.15 15.87 20.00 24.04 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 12.05 16.85 20.60 26.97 29.03 Financial clerks.................................................. 11.41 14.39 16.59 19.23 23.46 Bill and account collectors..................................... 11.28 14.00 17.56 18.50 32.31 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 14.72 15.32 16.25 19.13 20.67 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.41 14.00 16.41 19.34 23.73 Customer service representatives.................................. 11.90 13.46 14.91 20.19 23.08 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 10.00 11.50 13.00 15.51 20.03 Dispatchers....................................................... 13.32 15.30 18.58 20.86 24.56 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 9.25 11.00 14.45 16.25 19.35 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 9.25 11.30 12.80 15.10 18.09 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 12.50 14.42 17.44 22.19 27.64 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 15.61 18.74 21.83 24.16 26.68 Medical secretaries............................................. 10.85 12.02 12.50 14.57 16.70 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.00 13.18 14.42 17.42 20.00 Office clerks, general............................................ 12.50 13.15 16.25 19.81 21.00 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 11.00 12.46 17.00 21.00 29.08 First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................... 17.00 21.19 26.88 32.13 37.50 Carpenters........................................................ 12.69 18.00 21.00 21.00 26.50 Construction laborers............................................. 8.50 10.00 11.70 13.00 14.00 Electricians...................................................... 18.86 18.97 18.97 27.06 32.95 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 12.00 15.37 20.90 28.05 30.00 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 20.53 20.53 21.37 27.94 36.83 Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 24.17 27.69 28.38 30.13 30.13 Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers................................................ 24.17 27.69 28.38 30.13 30.13 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 9.70 11.35 17.74 30.00 34.31 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 9.70 10.85 18.00 30.00 34.31 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 12.00 12.50 17.00 22.45 24.57 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 12.62 14.22 17.65 19.97 23.77 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 11.01 14.22 17.65 18.85 28.75 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 12.00 12.50 13.80 15.38 17.00 Production occupations.............................................. 8.03 10.00 13.33 17.91 27.68 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 16.00 17.60 22.12 26.44 33.94 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.22 10.75 14.25 23.42 28.22 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 9.05 9.05 12.75 13.00 15.75 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 10.86 11.50 16.50 17.44 28.70 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 10.86 11.32 15.30 17.50 28.70 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 8.03 8.03 12.77 17.50 29.45 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 8.00 8.97 13.30 17.91 21.28 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.65 10.00 12.00 16.58 22.89 First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators.................... 15.00 18.55 24.05 25.00 26.56 Bus drivers....................................................... 14.41 15.51 16.87 19.15 20.75 Bus drivers, school............................................. 14.41 15.51 16.87 19.15 20.75 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 10.55 12.00 13.50 16.84 22.37 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 11.71 12.00 15.00 21.81 22.37 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 8.38 12.37 12.50 14.12 19.45 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 10.50 12.50 14.98 15.52 16.65 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.56 12.84 Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 8.00 8.45 9.00 10.00 10.50 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 8.50 9.25 10.00 11.74 13.52 Machine feeders and offbearers.................................. 9.03 9.63 11.56 12.23 13.13 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 7.80 8.00 9.00 10.47 11.62 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 10. Part-time(1) civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(2), Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Part-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $6.00 $7.15 $8.85 $11.33 $18.00 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 6.82 6.82 10.53 16.49 25.96 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 9.50 11.33 22.10 30.00 38.00 Registered nurses................................................. 24.90 27.64 28.77 31.82 33.13 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 8.00 8.00 9.00 12.30 12.40 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 8.00 8.00 9.00 12.40 12.40 Protective service occupations...................................... 6.50 7.79 8.75 13.84 15.26 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 3.25 6.00 7.00 8.15 9.58 Cooks............................................................. 7.75 8.00 9.00 10.25 12.35 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.13 2.13 2.13 7.00 7.25 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.00 6.00 6.25 7.30 8.50 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 6.00 6.00 6.30 7.25 8.65 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.90 7.86 8.50 10.50 17.81 Sales and related occupations....................................... 6.50 7.25 8.85 10.00 11.75 Retail sales workers.............................................. 6.50 7.00 8.70 9.79 10.50 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 6.00 6.75 8.00 9.00 10.00 Cashiers...................................................... 6.00 6.75 8.00 9.00 10.00 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.44 8.50 8.95 10.28 12.01 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 8.00 8.73 11.28 13.68 18.00 Financial clerks.................................................. 10.87 10.99 12.00 17.00 19.00 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 5.90 7.00 7.57 9.75 13.29 Bus drivers....................................................... 12.64 13.29 14.70 15.76 16.10 Bus drivers, school............................................. 12.64 13.29 14.70 15.76 16.10 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 6.25 7.00 7.28 8.98 10.07 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.00 7.00 7.50 9.00 10.00 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 6.15 7.10 7.28 8.00 9.00 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 11. Full-time(1) civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $22.20 $17.74 $885 $707 39.8 $44,927 $36,494 2,024 Management occupations.............................................. 42.30 41.27 1,739 1,651 41.1 89,611 83,718 2,119 General and operations managers................................... 47.55 41.99 1,963 1,680 41.3 102,061 87,345 2,146 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 50.52 43.27 2,323 2,380 46.0 120,814 123,749 2,391 Sales managers.................................................. 49.61 43.27 2,346 2,380 47.3 121,973 123,749 2,458 Computer and information systems managers......................... 46.59 48.38 1,893 1,935 40.6 98,431 100,639 2,113 Financial managers................................................ 39.40 33.60 1,576 1,344 40.0 81,663 69,886 2,073 Construction managers............................................. 39.20 37.50 1,612 1,500 41.1 83,823 78,000 2,138 Education administrators.......................................... 38.57 42.48 1,520 1,699 39.4 70,478 74,193 1,827 Engineering managers.............................................. 42.75 42.00 1,710 1,680 40.0 88,919 87,360 2,080 Medical and health services managers.............................. 35.92 36.22 1,466 1,449 40.8 76,246 75,336 2,123 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 29.31 25.64 1,231 1,094 42.0 63,839 55,334 2,178 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 22.28 14.51 1,007 673 45.2 52,355 35,001 2,350 Training and development specialists............................ 17.45 12.24 822 673 47.1 42,766 35,001 2,451 Management analysts............................................... 36.52 34.79 1,477 1,478 40.4 76,811 76,874 2,103 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 26.23 22.12 1,073 987 40.9 55,185 51,300 2,104 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 35.15 33.73 1,402 1,347 39.9 72,717 70,034 2,069 Computer programmers.............................................. 34.49 33.84 1,391 1,354 40.3 72,354 70,387 2,098 Computer software engineers....................................... 41.25 40.38 1,650 1,615 40.0 85,800 83,990 2,080 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 45.18 44.25 1,807 1,770 40.0 93,971 92,040 2,080 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 36.67 34.52 1,467 1,381 40.0 76,281 71,793 2,080 Computer support specialists...................................... 29.19 26.56 1,164 1,076 39.9 60,345 55,950 2,067 Computer systems analysts......................................... 39.70 35.54 1,575 1,408 39.7 81,478 73,199 2,052 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 35.60 32.26 1,417 1,290 39.8 73,709 67,105 2,070 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 29.64 27.40 1,186 1,096 40.0 61,650 57,000 2,080 Engineers......................................................... 37.21 35.03 1,488 1,401 40.0 77,394 72,852 2,080 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 34.26 33.04 1,370 1,322 40.0 71,257 68,727 2,080 Drafters.......................................................... 24.64 21.39 986 856 40.0 51,259 44,500 2,080 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 23.84 24.05 954 962 40.0 49,588 50,024 2,080 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 23.24 21.18 930 847 40.0 48,344 44,054 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 24.28 23.70 984 948 40.5 50,450 49,304 2,078 Community and social services occupations........................... 20.84 17.87 822 715 39.5 40,535 39,037 1,945 Counselors........................................................ 25.15 18.91 997 756 39.6 46,347 39,324 1,843 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 25.74 18.91 1,019 756 39.6 46,835 39,324 1,820 Social workers.................................................... 18.91 16.62 755 665 39.9 38,991 34,574 2,062 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 14.27 14.50 543 517 38.1 28,247 26,909 1,979 Legal occupations................................................... 50.46 48.08 2,027 1,904 40.2 105,400 98,989 2,089 Lawyers........................................................... 61.56 64.25 2,496 2,891 40.5 129,783 150,345 2,108 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 29.92 31.77 1,173 1,259 39.2 46,300 48,651 1,548 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 33.56 30.23 1,405 1,247 41.9 61,839 54,000 1,842 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 33.25 33.91 1,299 1,341 39.1 50,064 51,305 1,506 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 22.97 18.13 899 725 39.1 39,092 39,268 1,702 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 34.18 33.91 1,331 1,318 38.9 50,604 50,586 1,481 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 33.87 33.27 1,313 1,316 38.8 50,049 50,019 1,478 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 35.18 33.91 1,389 1,356 39.5 52,436 51,537 1,491 Secondary school teachers....................................... 34.57 35.32 1,359 1,401 39.3 51,618 53,243 1,493 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 33.86 35.03 1,332 1,356 39.3 50,592 52,400 1,494 Special education teachers...................................... 37.10 37.12 1,456 1,459 39.2 55,406 55,437 1,493 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 31.04 32.35 1,155 1,294 37.2 45,495 49,164 1,466 Teacher assistants................................................ 13.84 14.40 531 560 38.3 21,176 20,976 1,530 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 26.70 20.00 1,054 804 39.5 54,802 41,787 2,052 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 29.01 26.29 1,153 1,027 39.7 59,530 52,974 2,052 Registered nurses................................................. 29.71 28.53 1,163 1,112 39.1 59,778 57,672 2,012 Therapists........................................................ 26.29 30.94 1,047 1,238 39.8 54,140 64,351 2,059 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.86 17.00 708 679 39.6 35,738 35,300 2,000 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.88 12.23 511 483 39.7 26,332 23,920 2,044 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.96 10.98 433 428 39.5 22,515 22,258 2,054 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.11 12.23 474 478 39.1 24,638 24,878 2,035 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 15.82 15.81 633 632 40.0 32,087 32,816 2,028 Medical assistants.............................................. 14.26 14.35 570 574 40.0 29,658 29,848 2,080 Protective service occupations...................................... 16.86 15.70 702 659 41.6 36,087 33,749 2,141 First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 23.97 25.97 977 1,050 40.7 50,785 54,592 2,119 First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 25.25 26.25 1,026 1,064 40.6 53,335 55,334 2,112 Fire fighters..................................................... 18.08 17.16 922 923 51.0 47,950 48,001 2,653 Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 14.66 13.34 594 544 40.5 30,884 28,283 2,107 Correctional officers and jailers............................... 14.66 13.34 594 544 40.5 30,884 28,283 2,107 Police officers................................................... 19.25 18.90 784 774 40.7 40,745 40,273 2,117 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 19.25 18.90 784 774 40.7 40,745 40,273 2,117 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 12.24 11.00 490 440 40.0 25,465 22,880 2,080 Security guards................................................. 12.24 11.00 490 440 40.0 25,465 22,880 2,080 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.70 9.00 331 330 38.0 16,772 16,746 1,927 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 14.67 11.58 593 555 40.4 29,228 28,854 1,992 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 15.15 13.25 613 555 40.5 30,001 28,854 1,980 Cooks............................................................. 11.73 11.69 442 446 37.7 22,104 22,561 1,885 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 13.74 12.37 492 446 35.8 20,778 22,561 1,512 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 11.99 12.42 458 466 38.2 23,806 24,227 1,985 Food preparation workers.......................................... 10.54 9.84 386 367 36.6 19,123 18,366 1,815 Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.33 2.19 166 87 38.2 8,532 4,536 1,968 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.50 2.18 134 85 38.4 6,983 4,430 1,997 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 6.92 6.90 260 274 37.6 12,958 10,647 1,871 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 9.02 8.82 330 312 36.6 17,000 16,203 1,884 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 9.54 9.25 361 330 37.9 18,781 17,160 1,969 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.03 10.00 437 400 39.7 22,606 20,800 2,050 Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.50 9.68 415 390 39.5 21,366 20,280 2,035 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.90 9.50 430 404 39.5 22,092 21,000 2,027 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.15 9.68 362 387 39.5 18,803 20,134 2,055 Personal care and service occupations............................... 19.04 12.31 634 562 33.3 32,143 29,227 1,688 Sales and related occupations....................................... 21.66 15.45 873 612 40.3 44,212 30,680 2,041 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 25.43 17.66 1,054 707 41.5 54,833 36,739 2,156 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 17.68 17.66 715 707 40.5 37,205 36,739 2,104 Retail sales workers.............................................. 14.08 11.75 569 465 40.4 27,759 23,336 1,971 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.00 10.18 399 392 39.9 17,641 18,046 1,765 Cashiers...................................................... 10.00 10.18 399 392 39.9 17,641 18,046 1,765 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 18.11 17.58 739 703 40.8 38,409 36,558 2,121 Counter and rental clerks..................................... 14.20 16.32 548 653 38.6 28,501 33,948 2,008 Parts salespersons............................................ 21.18 19.61 904 844 42.7 47,019 43,875 2,220 Retail salespersons............................................. 15.77 13.08 641 523 40.6 33,332 27,206 2,114 Insurance sales agents............................................ 32.69 21.65 1,313 860 40.2 68,257 44,728 2,088 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 51.05 40.86 1,963 1,635 38.5 102,096 85,020 2,000 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 37.22 34.14 1,390 1,366 37.4 72,296 71,007 1,942 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 19.67 10.00 787 400 40.0 40,918 20,800 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.95 15.87 670 628 39.5 34,746 32,656 2,050 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 20.73 20.60 851 760 41.1 44,266 39,520 2,135 Financial clerks.................................................. 17.30 16.59 682 660 39.4 35,433 34,216 2,048 Bill and account collectors..................................... 18.24 17.56 729 702 40.0 37,930 36,525 2,080 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 17.14 16.25 685 650 40.0 35,642 33,800 2,080 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.09 16.41 666 656 39.0 34,569 33,280 2,023 Customer service representatives.................................. 16.59 14.91 663 591 40.0 34,468 30,742 2,078 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.78 13.00 546 520 39.6 28,401 27,040 2,060 Dispatchers....................................................... 18.63 18.58 749 743 40.2 38,944 38,646 2,091 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.94 14.45 549 522 39.4 28,559 27,144 2,049 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 13.52 12.80 541 512 40.0 28,131 26,624 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.39 17.44 767 698 39.6 39,685 36,223 2,046 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 22.94 21.83 908 852 39.6 47,236 44,325 2,059 Medical secretaries............................................. 13.38 12.50 535 500 40.0 27,839 26,000 2,080 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.53 14.42 616 577 39.6 31,577 30,000 2,033 Office clerks, general............................................ 16.48 16.25 617 620 37.5 32,042 32,240 1,944 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.18 17.00 727 680 40.0 37,798 35,360 2,079 First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................... 26.68 26.88 1,067 1,075 40.0 55,502 55,900 2,080 Carpenters........................................................ 20.23 21.00 809 840 40.0 42,075 43,680 2,080 Construction laborers............................................. 11.55 11.70 462 468 40.0 24,024 24,330 2,080 Electricians...................................................... 22.60 18.97 896 759 39.7 46,614 39,466 2,062 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.33 20.90 867 836 40.7 45,088 43,472 2,114 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 24.67 21.37 1,067 962 43.2 55,472 50,001 2,249 Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 27.55 28.38 1,102 1,135 40.0 57,300 59,020 2,080 Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers................................................ 27.55 28.38 1,102 1,135 40.0 57,300 59,020 2,080 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 19.68 17.74 820 683 41.6 42,620 35,506 2,165 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 19.91 18.00 831 720 41.8 43,238 37,446 2,172 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 17.99 17.00 720 680 40.0 37,421 35,360 2,080 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 17.74 17.65 739 736 41.7 38,395 37,960 2,165 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.92 17.65 717 706 40.0 37,185 35,610 2,075 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 14.02 13.80 561 552 40.0 29,156 28,704 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 15.09 13.33 602 540 39.9 31,303 28,080 2,074 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 23.31 22.12 932 885 40.0 48,475 45,999 2,080 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 16.68 14.25 657 560 39.4 34,141 29,120 2,047 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 11.97 12.75 479 510 40.0 24,897 26,520 2,080 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 16.41 16.50 654 652 39.9 34,015 33,891 2,073 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 16.32 15.30 650 652 39.8 33,821 33,891 2,072 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 15.10 12.77 604 511 40.0 31,409 26,562 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.99 13.30 559 532 40.0 29,068 27,656 2,078 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.42 12.00 645 483 39.3 33,149 24,960 2,019 First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators.................... 22.22 24.05 945 962 42.5 49,116 50,014 2,210 Bus drivers....................................................... 17.35 16.87 469 426 27.0 17,530 15,566 1,010 Bus drivers, school............................................. 17.35 16.87 469 426 27.0 17,530 15,566 1,010 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.37 13.50 647 573 42.1 33,635 29,786 2,188 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.79 15.00 740 644 44.1 38,473 33,488 2,292 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 13.37 12.50 526 500 39.4 27,369 26,000 2,048 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.03 14.98 561 599 40.0 29,187 31,158 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.39 10.00 416 400 40.0 21,623 20,800 2,082 Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 9.19 9.00 381 400 41.5 19,836 20,800 2,157 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.70 10.00 425 400 39.7 22,111 20,800 2,067 Machine feeders and offbearers.................................. 11.11 11.56 444 462 40.0 23,106 24,045 2,080 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.57 9.00 383 360 40.0 19,898 18,720 2,080 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 12. Full-time(1) private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $22.01 $17.14 $878 $684 39.9 $45,372 $35,443 2,062 Management occupations.............................................. 42.25 40.87 1,742 1,635 41.2 90,582 85,010 2,144 General and operations managers................................... 47.55 41.99 1,963 1,680 41.3 102,061 87,345 2,146 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 50.52 43.27 2,323 2,380 46.0 120,814 123,749 2,391 Sales managers.................................................. 49.61 43.27 2,346 2,380 47.3 121,973 123,749 2,458 Computer and information systems managers......................... 46.59 48.38 1,893 1,935 40.6 98,431 100,639 2,113 Financial managers................................................ 39.11 33.60 1,565 1,344 40.0 81,357 69,886 2,080 Construction managers............................................. 39.20 37.50 1,612 1,500 41.1 83,823 78,000 2,138 Engineering managers.............................................. 42.75 42.00 1,710 1,680 40.0 88,919 87,360 2,080 Medical and health services managers.............................. 36.81 36.22 1,508 1,449 41.0 78,405 75,336 2,130 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 29.87 25.64 1,262 1,154 42.3 65,639 60,000 2,197 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 21.99 12.24 1,020 673 46.4 53,041 35,001 2,412 Management analysts............................................... 37.77 37.27 1,529 1,478 40.5 79,508 76,874 2,105 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 25.55 21.92 1,054 987 41.3 54,823 51,300 2,146 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 35.40 34.10 1,414 1,362 39.9 73,390 70,500 2,073 Computer programmers.............................................. 34.59 33.17 1,398 1,327 40.4 72,703 68,994 2,102 Computer software engineers....................................... 41.25 40.38 1,650 1,615 40.0 85,800 83,990 2,080 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 45.18 44.25 1,807 1,770 40.0 93,971 92,040 2,080 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 36.67 34.52 1,467 1,381 40.0 76,281 71,793 2,080 Computer support specialists...................................... 29.43 26.54 1,173 1,076 39.9 60,798 55,950 2,066 Computer systems analysts......................................... 39.34 34.62 1,566 1,385 39.8 81,413 71,997 2,070 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 35.60 32.26 1,417 1,290 39.8 73,709 67,105 2,070 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 29.76 26.80 1,190 1,072 40.0 61,897 55,740 2,080 Engineers......................................................... 38.81 35.82 1,552 1,433 40.0 80,718 74,499 2,080 Drafters.......................................................... 24.64 21.39 986 856 40.0 51,259 44,500 2,080 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 23.27 23.80 931 952 40.0 48,405 49,500 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 24.45 23.36 978 934 40.0 50,848 48,591 2,080 Community and social services occupations........................... 17.26 16.62 680 665 39.4 35,359 34,574 2,049 Legal occupations................................................... 50.46 48.08 2,027 1,904 40.2 105,400 98,989 2,089 Lawyers........................................................... 61.56 64.25 2,496 2,891 40.5 129,783 150,345 2,108 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 26.60 21.18 1,032 794 38.8 44,349 39,520 1,667 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 35.05 34.73 1,313 1,216 37.5 58,643 47,727 1,673 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 25.26 21.41 1,009 803 39.9 40,846 34,485 1,617 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 34.47 35.57 1,353 1,423 39.3 50,180 52,641 1,456 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 30.27 24.82 1,190 869 39.3 61,870 45,167 2,044 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 30.26 27.26 1,203 1,068 39.8 62,490 55,515 2,065 Registered nurses................................................. 30.72 29.24 1,201 1,136 39.1 62,429 59,062 2,032 Therapists........................................................ 26.09 30.94 1,043 1,238 40.0 54,261 64,351 2,080 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.59 19.59 774 784 39.5 39,414 40,018 2,012 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.18 12.67 523 494 39.7 27,188 25,684 2,063 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.07 11.25 437 447 39.5 22,708 23,254 2,052 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.34 12.27 482 489 39.0 25,039 25,447 2,029 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.73 17.10 669 684 40.0 34,791 35,568 2,080 Protective service occupations...................................... 13.09 11.06 523 442 40.0 26,434 22,984 2,019 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 12.30 11.00 492 440 40.0 25,575 22,880 2,080 Security guards................................................. 12.30 11.00 492 440 40.0 25,575 22,880 2,080 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.31 8.82 318 320 38.3 16,543 16,640 1,992 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 13.26 11.58 548 530 41.3 28,494 27,566 2,150 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 13.57 11.58 564 555 41.6 29,343 28,854 2,162 Cooks............................................................. 11.61 11.69 443 466 38.2 23,040 24,227 1,985 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 11.99 12.42 458 466 38.2 23,806 24,227 1,985 Food preparation workers.......................................... 10.01 8.83 365 330 36.5 18,975 17,160 1,896 Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.24 2.19 163 87 38.4 8,476 4,536 1,998 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.50 2.18 134 85 38.4 6,983 4,430 1,997 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.98 8.82 330 312 36.8 17,175 16,203 1,914 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 9.54 9.25 361 330 37.9 18,781 17,160 1,969 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.24 10.00 406 400 39.7 21,137 20,800 2,064 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.71 9.30 384 380 39.5 19,953 19,760 2,056 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 9.85 9.23 389 364 39.5 20,240 18,949 2,055 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.15 9.68 362 387 39.5 18,803 20,134 2,055 Personal care and service occupations............................... 19.67 12.32 656 592 33.4 34,127 30,768 1,735 Sales and related occupations....................................... 21.66 15.45 873 612 40.3 44,212 30,680 2,041 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 25.43 17.66 1,054 707 41.5 54,833 36,739 2,156 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 17.68 17.66 715 707 40.5 37,205 36,739 2,104 Retail sales workers.............................................. 14.08 11.75 569 465 40.4 27,759 23,336 1,971 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.00 10.18 399 392 39.9 17,641 18,046 1,765 Cashiers...................................................... 10.00 10.18 399 392 39.9 17,641 18,046 1,765 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 18.11 17.58 739 703 40.8 38,409 36,558 2,121 Counter and rental clerks..................................... 14.20 16.32 548 653 38.6 28,501 33,948 2,008 Parts salespersons............................................ 21.18 19.61 904 844 42.7 47,019 43,875 2,220 Retail salespersons............................................. 15.77 13.08 641 523 40.6 33,332 27,206 2,114 Insurance sales agents............................................ 32.69 21.65 1,313 860 40.2 68,257 44,728 2,088 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 51.05 40.86 1,963 1,635 38.5 102,096 85,020 2,000 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 37.22 34.14 1,390 1,366 37.4 72,296 71,007 1,942 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 19.67 10.00 787 400 40.0 40,918 20,800 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.86 16.03 666 628 39.5 34,628 32,681 2,054 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 20.43 20.60 841 760 41.1 43,717 39,520 2,140 Financial clerks.................................................. 17.38 16.83 685 673 39.4 35,638 35,002 2,050 Bill and account collectors..................................... 18.24 17.56 729 702 40.0 37,930 36,525 2,080 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 17.14 16.25 685 650 40.0 35,642 33,800 2,080 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.18 16.41 670 656 39.0 34,831 34,129 2,027 Customer service representatives.................................. 16.66 15.00 666 600 40.0 34,617 31,200 2,078 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.78 13.00 546 520 39.6 28,401 27,040 2,060 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.94 14.45 549 522 39.4 28,559 27,144 2,049 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 13.68 12.80 547 512 40.0 28,454 26,624 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.16 18.74 757 743 39.5 39,352 38,630 2,054 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 21.47 21.83 849 850 39.5 44,147 44,177 2,056 Medical secretaries............................................. 13.50 12.53 540 501 40.0 28,075 26,062 2,080 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.57 14.42 617 577 39.6 32,081 30,000 2,060 Office clerks, general............................................ 16.48 16.25 616 615 37.4 32,028 31,990 1,944 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.05 17.00 722 680 40.0 37,523 35,360 2,079 First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................... 27.12 26.88 1,085 1,075 40.0 56,401 55,900 2,080 Carpenters........................................................ 20.23 21.00 809 840 40.0 42,075 43,680 2,080 Electricians...................................................... 22.66 18.97 898 759 39.6 46,709 39,466 2,062 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.50 21.36 875 850 40.7 45,515 44,200 2,117 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 25.10 21.37 1,102 962 43.9 57,313 50,001 2,283 Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 27.92 28.38 1,117 1,135 40.0 58,071 59,020 2,080 Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers................................................ 27.92 28.38 1,117 1,135 40.0 58,071 59,020 2,080 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 19.71 16.46 823 658 41.8 42,811 34,241 2,172 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 19.96 18.00 836 720 41.9 43,496 37,442 2,179 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.12 17.65 760 754 41.9 39,513 39,208 2,180 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 18.82 17.65 753 706 40.0 39,149 36,712 2,080 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 14.02 13.80 561 552 40.0 29,156 28,704 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 15.04 13.25 599 533 39.8 31,165 27,726 2,072 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 23.31 22.12 932 885 40.0 48,475 45,999 2,080 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 16.68 14.25 657 560 39.4 34,141 29,120 2,047 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 11.97 12.75 479 510 40.0 24,897 26,520 2,080 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 16.41 16.50 654 652 39.9 34,015 33,891 2,073 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 16.32 15.30 650 652 39.8 33,821 33,891 2,072 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 15.10 12.77 604 511 40.0 31,409 26,562 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.99 13.30 559 532 40.0 29,068 27,656 2,078 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.37 12.00 650 480 39.7 33,797 24,960 2,065 First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators.................... 22.55 24.05 964 962 42.7 50,117 50,014 2,222 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.27 13.00 645 565 42.2 33,520 29,378 2,195 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.76 15.00 744 644 44.4 38,671 33,488 2,308 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 13.17 12.50 518 500 39.3 26,949 26,000 2,046 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.03 14.98 561 599 40.0 29,187 31,158 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.39 10.00 416 400 40.0 21,623 20,800 2,082 Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 9.19 9.00 381 400 41.5 19,836 20,800 2,157 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.70 10.00 425 400 39.7 22,111 20,800 2,067 Machine feeders and offbearers.................................. 11.11 11.56 444 462 40.0 23,106 24,045 2,080 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.57 9.00 383 360 40.0 19,898 18,720 2,080 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 13. Full-time(1) State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $23.54 $20.51 $933 $845 39.6 $42,246 $41,000 1,795 Management occupations.............................................. 43.00 44.87 1,703 1,766 39.6 77,595 77,937 1,804 Education administrators.......................................... 44.01 46.05 1,733 1,810 39.4 74,584 76,035 1,695 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 24.91 23.28 996 931 40.0 50,772 48,901 2,038 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 28.07 27.38 1,123 1,095 40.0 56,093 57,096 1,999 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 30.65 28.16 1,207 1,126 39.4 61,393 58,573 2,003 Community and social services occupations........................... 26.23 21.99 1,037 940 39.5 47,408 46,018 1,808 Counselors........................................................ 37.15 37.61 1,450 1,482 39.0 57,349 57,806 1,544 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 30.80 32.08 1,211 1,282 39.3 46,772 49,583 1,519 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 32.85 29.30 1,457 1,405 44.4 63,614 58,439 1,936 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 34.90 34.76 1,357 1,356 38.9 51,816 51,537 1,485 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 34.14 33.49 1,328 1,316 38.9 50,660 50,019 1,484 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 34.19 33.04 1,323 1,316 38.7 50,541 50,019 1,478 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 33.94 33.91 1,345 1,356 39.6 51,129 51,537 1,506 Secondary school teachers....................................... 36.03 35.32 1,403 1,409 38.9 53,612 53,685 1,488 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 35.31 35.03 1,375 1,387 38.9 52,571 52,855 1,489 Special education teachers...................................... 37.10 37.12 1,456 1,459 39.2 55,406 55,437 1,493 Teacher assistants................................................ 13.70 13.25 520 509 38.0 19,737 19,356 1,441 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 17.97 16.97 713 679 39.6 34,949 35,048 1,944 Protective service occupations...................................... 19.00 18.09 810 788 42.6 42,133 40,993 2,217 First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 23.97 25.97 977 1,050 40.7 50,785 54,592 2,119 First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 25.25 26.25 1,026 1,064 40.6 53,335 55,334 2,112 Fire fighters..................................................... 16.67 16.63 884 881 53.0 45,943 45,832 2,756 Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 14.66 13.34 594 544 40.5 30,884 28,283 2,107 Correctional officers and jailers............................... 14.66 13.34 594 544 40.5 30,884 28,283 2,107 Police officers................................................... 19.25 18.90 784 774 40.7 40,745 40,273 2,117 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 19.25 18.90 784 774 40.7 40,745 40,273 2,117 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 15.23 13.09 512 456 33.6 19,149 17,784 1,257 Cooks............................................................. 13.05 11.13 427 342 32.7 15,801 13,014 1,211 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 13.05 11.13 427 342 32.7 15,801 13,014 1,211 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 14.52 13.96 574 543 39.5 28,873 27,147 1,989 Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.58 13.02 534 509 39.3 26,614 25,896 1,960 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.58 13.02 534 509 39.3 26,614 25,896 1,960 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.95 15.72 717 629 39.9 36,068 31,574 2,009 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.50 16.54 816 662 39.8 41,222 33,738 2,011 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.43 15.72 612 629 39.7 30,425 31,574 1,972 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 19.21 17.62 768 705 40.0 39,958 36,650 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.69 17.74 747 710 40.0 38,744 36,171 2,073 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 17.34 17.13 574 554 33.1 24,717 21,952 1,426 Bus drivers....................................................... 17.35 16.87 469 426 27.0 17,530 15,566 1,010 Bus drivers, school............................................. 17.35 16.87 469 426 27.0 17,530 15,566 1,010 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings(1) of private industry establishments for major occupational groups, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 1-99 100-499 500 Occupational group(2) Total workers workers workers or more All workers.................................. $20.90 $18.75 $21.25 $25.02 Management, professional, and related...... 33.88 33.25 34.33 34.23 Management, business, and financial...... 36.92 33.67 43.90 36.82 Professional and related................. 31.75 32.83 29.96 32.53 Service.................................... 10.56 9.13 9.52 14.36 Sales and office........................... 17.45 17.76 16.70 17.79 Sales and related........................ 18.82 19.38 17.51 19.97 Office and administrative support........ 16.55 16.57 16.05 17.13 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance............................... 20.08 18.88 20.28 24.20 Construction and extraction............. 18.05 17.68 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair.... 21.50 19.67 23.96 24.67 Production, transportation, and material moving.................................... 15.26 12.58 13.12 24.51 Production............................... 15.21 13.33 14.52 19.75 Transportation and material moving....... 15.29 12.07 12.05 – B 1-99 100-499 500 Total workers workers workers or more Occupational group(2) Relative error(3) (percent) Relative error(3) (percent) All workers........................................................... 3.1 4.4 6.9 6.8 Management, professional, and related............................... 2.3 3.4 6.6 2.8 Management, business, and financial............................... 3.8 6.6 6.7 5.6 Professional and related.......................................... 3.0 5.1 8.5 2.7 Service............................................................. 4.2 8.7 15.5 12.2 Sales and office.................................................... 4.0 7.2 7.0 4.7 Sales and related................................................. 8.9 14.2 12.4 17.5 Office and administrative support................................. 2.3 4.1 4.0 2.4 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 5.1 7.1 8.0 5.9 Construction and extraction...................................... 8.6 10.5 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 3.8 7.5 10.6 5.2 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 10.1 4.2 6.9 32.4 Production........................................................ 5.4 6.3 5.7 7.4 Transportation and material moving................................ 17.5 7.0 11.3 – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 15. Establishments with fewer than 100 workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time(1) private industry workers, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $19.91 $15.55 $798 $624 40.1 $41,258 $32,240 2,073 Management occupations.............................................. 38.93 38.63 1,650 1,614 42.4 85,825 83,907 2,204 General and operations managers................................... 46.84 38.46 2,004 1,538 42.8 104,216 79,997 2,225 Construction managers............................................. 43.69 41.27 1,810 1,651 41.4 94,133 85,831 2,155 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 27.59 24.00 1,236 1,035 44.8 64,250 53,820 2,329 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 20.54 12.24 975 673 47.5 50,725 35,001 2,469 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 31.91 32.34 1,275 1,294 39.9 66,276 67,276 2,077 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 25.33 24.93 1,013 997 40.0 52,687 51,863 2,080 Legal occupations................................................... 50.70 48.08 1,996 1,923 39.4 103,809 100,000 2,048 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 16.32 14.40 636 576 39.0 30,799 29,950 1,887 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 36.65 27.79 1,438 1,129 39.2 74,762 58,718 2,040 Registered nurses................................................. 37.59 30.21 1,503 1,208 40.0 78,178 62,831 2,080 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.14 11.25 526 450 40.0 27,329 23,400 2,080 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.63 8.31 289 300 37.8 15,017 15,600 1,967 Cooks............................................................. 10.44 11.00 390 370 37.4 20,302 19,240 1,945 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 11.07 11.54 415 443 37.5 21,570 23,046 1,948 Food service, tipped.............................................. 3.70 2.19 142 87 38.3 7,363 4,536 1,990 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.50 2.18 134 85 38.4 6,983 4,430 1,997 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.98 8.82 330 312 36.8 17,175 16,203 1,914 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 9.54 9.25 361 330 37.9 18,781 17,160 1,969 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.06 10.00 395 400 39.2 20,534 20,800 2,041 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.45 8.15 321 323 38.0 16,681 16,779 1,975 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.12 8.07 299 323 36.9 15,559 16,779 1,917 Sales and related occupations....................................... 22.50 17.04 906 639 40.3 44,989 32,136 2,000 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 28.61 21.60 1,190 734 41.6 61,868 38,191 2,163 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 18.86 17.66 754 707 40.0 39,221 36,739 2,080 Retail sales workers.............................................. 13.09 10.75 528 420 40.4 23,689 19,110 1,809 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.79 8.50 351 340 39.9 13,813 15,080 1,572 Cashiers...................................................... 8.79 8.50 351 340 39.9 13,813 15,080 1,572 Retail salespersons............................................. 17.83 17.91 729 716 40.9 37,884 37,253 2,125 Insurance sales agents............................................ 32.69 21.65 1,313 860 40.2 68,257 44,728 2,088 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.90 16.25 661 628 39.1 34,389 32,681 2,034 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 18.79 19.00 784 760 41.7 40,791 39,520 2,171 Financial clerks.................................................. 17.95 18.04 701 706 39.1 36,461 36,724 2,031 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.51 15.71 674 628 38.5 35,074 32,677 2,003 Customer service representatives.................................. 17.64 16.46 706 658 40.0 36,694 34,235 2,080 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 12.21 13.00 487 520 39.9 25,311 27,040 2,073 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.37 15.71 686 628 39.5 35,650 32,681 2,052 Office clerks, general............................................ 17.01 16.25 621 625 36.5 32,294 32,523 1,898 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 17.67 14.00 707 560 40.0 36,747 29,120 2,080 First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................... 27.12 26.88 1,085 1,075 40.0 56,401 55,900 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.67 18.67 794 740 40.4 41,308 38,459 2,100 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 18.00 16.46 761 658 42.3 39,578 34,241 2,199 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 18.15 16.90 772 614 42.5 40,145 31,920 2,212 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 20.08 19.97 798 799 39.7 41,501 41,538 2,067 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 14.06 14.00 562 560 40.0 29,238 29,120 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 13.34 12.00 536 493 40.2 27,858 25,629 2,088 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.48 12.00 579 480 40.0 30,112 24,960 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 11.30 11.00 452 440 40.0 23,494 22,880 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 12.91 11.71 524 480 40.6 27,263 24,960 2,112 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 13.95 12.50 574 500 41.1 29,833 26,000 2,138 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 15.10 12.50 647 600 42.8 33,624 31,200 2,227 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 13.20 13.75 528 550 40.0 27,456 28,600 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.00 10.00 401 400 40.2 20,872 20,800 2,088 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 9.74 10.00 381 400 39.1 19,827 20,800 2,035 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 10.12 10.47 405 419 40.0 21,059 21,778 2,080 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time(1) private industry workers, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $24.04 $19.33 $953 $780 39.7 $49,307 $40,523 2,051 Management occupations.............................................. 44.82 41.11 1,810 1,644 40.4 94,095 85,500 2,099 General and operations managers................................... 48.11 42.93 1,933 1,717 40.2 100,490 89,296 2,089 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 62.15 61.98 2,486 2,479 40.0 129,273 128,910 2,080 Computer and information systems managers......................... 46.17 46.71 1,881 1,868 40.7 97,808 97,153 2,118 Financial managers................................................ 43.66 35.81 1,746 1,432 40.0 90,813 74,479 2,080 Medical and health services managers.............................. 41.03 37.05 1,698 1,478 41.4 88,314 76,835 2,152 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 32.18 28.90 1,286 1,156 40.0 66,891 60,106 2,079 Management analysts............................................... 37.77 37.27 1,529 1,478 40.5 79,508 76,874 2,105 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 29.34 25.48 1,173 1,019 40.0 61,019 53,000 2,080 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 36.20 34.65 1,446 1,387 39.9 75,004 71,987 2,072 Computer programmers.............................................. 34.59 33.17 1,398 1,327 40.4 72,703 68,994 2,102 Computer software engineers....................................... 40.42 38.94 1,617 1,558 40.0 84,078 80,995 2,080 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 45.20 44.11 1,808 1,764 40.0 94,023 91,749 2,080 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 35.15 34.52 1,406 1,381 40.0 73,111 71,793 2,080 Computer support specialists...................................... 29.54 26.50 1,177 1,076 39.8 60,991 55,765 2,065 Computer systems analysts......................................... 41.09 35.58 1,635 1,412 39.8 85,005 73,400 2,069 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 31.40 30.05 1,256 1,202 40.0 65,312 62,504 2,080 Engineers......................................................... 38.92 36.06 1,557 1,442 40.0 80,961 75,001 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 24.80 23.36 992 934 40.0 51,592 48,591 2,080 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 35.67 35.57 1,379 1,423 38.7 53,928 52,641 1,512 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 44.09 37.70 1,595 1,320 36.2 66,572 51,379 1,510 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 32.57 35.57 1,299 1,423 39.9 48,000 52,641 1,474 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 24.12 20.09 956 804 39.6 49,695 41,787 2,061 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 25.79 25.05 1,035 994 40.1 53,726 51,626 2,083 Registered nurses................................................. 28.15 28.82 1,091 1,088 38.8 56,721 56,597 2,015 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.59 19.59 774 784 39.5 39,414 40,018 2,012 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.24 13.05 519 511 39.2 27,007 26,551 2,041 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.35 12.59 481 487 39.0 25,016 25,314 2,026 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.35 12.59 481 487 39.0 25,016 25,314 2,026 Protective service occupations...................................... 13.44 11.33 537 453 40.0 27,060 23,317 2,013 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 12.63 11.00 505 440 40.0 26,263 22,880 2,080 Security guards................................................. 12.63 11.00 505 440 40.0 26,263 22,880 2,080 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.13 10.61 401 417 39.6 20,872 21,694 2,061 Cooks............................................................. 14.25 14.55 570 582 40.0 29,650 30,264 2,080 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.43 9.68 419 404 40.2 21,771 21,000 2,088 Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.19 9.68 409 399 40.2 21,283 20,738 2,088 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.48 9.86 425 404 40.6 22,100 21,000 2,109 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.22 9.12 362 355 39.3 18,834 18,470 2,043 Sales and related occupations....................................... 20.58 14.20 830 570 40.3 43,155 29,661 2,097 Retail sales workers.............................................. 14.76 12.80 596 507 40.4 31,011 26,354 2,101 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 11.44 10.84 455 425 39.8 23,679 22,121 2,070 Cashiers...................................................... 11.44 10.84 455 425 39.8 23,679 22,121 2,070 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 19.29 19.23 789 754 40.9 41,011 39,187 2,126 Retail salespersons............................................. 14.89 12.91 604 516 40.6 31,389 26,857 2,109 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.82 15.73 671 628 39.9 34,869 32,677 2,073 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 23.74 26.97 950 1,079 40.0 49,376 56,087 2,080 Financial clerks.................................................. 16.52 16.82 661 673 40.0 34,365 34,986 2,080 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 16.62 15.27 665 611 40.0 34,574 31,762 2,080 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 16.49 16.83 660 673 40.0 34,295 35,002 2,080 Customer service representatives.................................. 16.27 14.00 650 560 40.0 33,791 29,120 2,077 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 14.70 15.25 588 610 40.0 30,576 31,720 2,080 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 13.79 12.80 552 512 40.0 28,681 26,624 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.65 20.82 816 822 39.5 42,448 42,744 2,056 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 22.29 22.12 891 885 40.0 46,355 46,010 2,080 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 16.62 17.42 650 697 39.1 33,795 36,223 2,033 Office clerks, general............................................ 15.01 14.04 601 562 40.0 31,229 29,203 2,080 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.57 18.97 742 759 40.0 38,579 39,466 2,078 Electricians...................................................... 22.10 18.97 876 759 39.6 45,541 39,466 2,061 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 24.40 26.78 1,006 1,080 41.2 52,290 56,160 2,143 Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 28.35 28.38 1,134 1,135 40.0 58,970 59,020 2,080 Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers................................................ 28.35 28.38 1,134 1,135 40.0 58,970 59,020 2,080 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 16.46 17.65 724 720 44.0 37,642 37,440 2,287 Production occupations.............................................. 16.66 15.31 659 604 39.5 34,265 31,408 2,056 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 16.33 17.91 652 716 39.9 33,895 37,244 2,076 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 19.96 12.59 775 517 38.8 40,279 26,886 2,018 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.85 22.37 857 798 45.5 44,580 41,496 2,365 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.68 15.52 587 621 40.0 30,524 32,282 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.72 10.00 428 400 39.9 22,255 20,800 2,077 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.98 10.37 438 413 39.9 22,791 21,486 2,076 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 17. Union(1) and nonunion workers: Mean hourly earnings(2) for major occupational groups, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Union Nonunion Occupational group(3) Private State and Private State and Civilian industry local Civilian industry local workers workers government workers workers government workers workers All workers........................................................... $25.43 $25.76 – $20.93 $20.63 $23.14 Management, professional, and related............................... – – – 32.88 33.87 28.80 Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 36.55 36.92 32.54 Professional and related.......................................... – – – 30.77 31.71 28.11 Service............................................................. 18.11 15.06 – 11.52 10.45 16.30 Sales and office.................................................... 16.52 16.52 – 17.49 17.48 17.59 Sales and related................................................. 17.26 17.26 – 18.87 18.87 – Office and administrative support................................. 16.00 16.00 – 16.65 16.57 17.59 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 25.27 25.17 – 18.80 18.91 17.72 Construction and extraction...................................... 22.71 22.32 – 16.95 16.81 17.93 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 27.78 27.97 – 20.09 20.26 17.42 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 31.61 32.11 – 13.28 13.12 17.19 Production........................................................ 24.10 24.10 – 13.43 13.36 – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – 13.18 12.96 16.76 Union Nonunion Private State and Private State and Civilian industry local Civilian industry local workers workers government workers workers government workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 22.9 25.2 – 2.6 2.9 3.0 Management, professional, and related............................... – – – 2.1 2.3 3.3 Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 3.5 3.8 3.8 Professional and related.......................................... – – – 2.6 3.1 3.6 Service............................................................. 11.7 20.6 – 4.4 4.2 4.6 Sales and office.................................................... 16.6 16.6 – 3.8 3.9 11.1 Sales and related................................................. 26.9 26.9 – 8.8 8.8 – Office and administrative support................................. 13.1 13.1 – 2.3 2.3 11.1 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 2.6 2.8 – 4.9 5.4 6.5 Construction and extraction...................................... 4.8 5.2 – 9.3 10.5 9.7 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 1.9 1.8 – 3.1 3.4 2.8 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 45.9 46.8 – 3.8 3.9 5.5 Production........................................................ 5.4 5.4 – 7.7 7.8 – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – 4.3 4.6 4.5 1 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 18. Time and incentive workers(1): Mean hourly earnings(2) for major occupational groups, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Time Incentive Occupational group(3) Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers All workers........................................................... $20.66 $20.30 $27.20 $27.20 Management, professional, and related............................... 32.32 33.22 46.29 46.29 Management, business, and financial............................... 35.97 36.32 42.47 42.47 Professional and related.......................................... 30.39 31.21 – – Service............................................................. 11.71 10.44 – – Sales and office.................................................... 15.81 15.70 26.14 26.14 Sales and related................................................. 14.30 14.30 30.68 30.68 Office and administrative support................................. 16.54 16.44 17.66 17.66 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 19.76 19.84 24.78 24.78 Construction and extraction...................................... – 18.05 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 21.04 21.20 24.78 24.78 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 15.21 15.14 17.11 17.11 Production........................................................ 15.36 15.31 11.17 11.17 Transportation and material moving................................ 15.11 15.00 18.48 18.48 Time Incentive Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 3.0 3.5 8.4 8.4 Management, professional, and related............................... 2.2 2.4 12.9 12.9 Management, business, and financial............................... 3.3 3.7 12.3 12.3 Professional and related.......................................... 2.8 3.4 – – Service............................................................. 4.6 4.2 – – Sales and office.................................................... 4.7 4.9 10.8 10.8 Sales and related................................................. 12.9 12.9 12.7 12.7 Office and administrative support................................. 2.5 2.5 5.1 5.1 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 5.0 5.4 14.6 14.6 Construction and extraction...................................... – 8.6 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 4.1 4.4 14.6 14.6 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 10.6 11.0 3.2 3.2 Production........................................................ 4.8 4.8 20.9 20.9 Transportation and material moving................................ 18.3 19.6 8.8 8.8 1 Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary. Incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 19. Industry sector(1): Mean hourly earnings(2) for private industry workers by major occupational group, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Goods producing Service providing Occupational group(3) Trade, Profes- Education Leisure Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Other tion turing tation, mation activiti- and health hospital- services and es business services ity utilities services All workers........................................................... $22.79 $21.46 $19.23 – – – $21.55 – – Management, professional, and related............................... 39.35 40.93 32.71 – – – 27.60 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 41.82 51.26 35.45 – – – 30.19 – – Professional and related.......................................... – 35.22 30.30 – – – 27.14 – – Service............................................................. – – 20.57 – – – 11.87 – – Sales and office.................................................... 19.53 23.80 15.82 – – – 14.77 – – Sales and related................................................. – 59.01 15.58 – – – – – – Office and administrative support................................. 17.61 16.75 16.19 – – – 15.22 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 18.18 21.60 21.54 – – – – – – Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 19.25 18.44 22.62 – – – – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 17.95 15.32 17.70 – – – – – – Production........................................................ – 16.07 13.72 – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – 11.99 18.17 – – – – – – B Goods producing Service providing Trade, Profes- Education Leisure Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Other Occupational group(3) tion turing tation, mation activiti- and health hospital- services and es business services ity utilities services Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 6.5 4.2 7.3 – – – 2.3 – – Management, professional, and related............................... 10.1 11.3 5.9 – – – 4.5 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 10.5 14.9 10.0 – – – 5.5 – – Professional and related.......................................... – 5.5 3.7 – – – 5.2 – – Service............................................................. – – 12.0 – – – 2.1 – – Sales and office.................................................... 4.1 10.5 8.6 – – – 6.1 – – Sales and related................................................. – 38.4 12.0 – – – – – – Office and administrative support................................. 5.7 3.1 4.1 – – – 4.2 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 11.5 10.7 6.2 – – – – – – Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 18.8 9.3 4.9 – – – – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 4.3 7.1 25.0 – – – – – – Production........................................................ – 6.3 9.7 – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – 9.8 27.7 – – – – – – 1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Private State and Occupational group(2) Civilian industry local workers workers government workers All workers........................................................... 2,379,500 2,068,500 311,000 Management, professional, and related............................... 716,300 547,600 168,600 Management, business, and financial............................... 237,100 214,900 22,300 Professional and related.......................................... 479,100 332,800 146,300 Service............................................................. 443,200 368,100 75,000 Sales and office.................................................... 662,400 631,200 31,300 Sales and related................................................. 265,700 265,700 – Office and administrative support................................. 396,700 365,500 31,300 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 187,400 171,800 15,500 Construction and extraction...................................... 82,200 73,300 8,900 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 105,200 98,500 6,600 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 370,300 349,700 20,600 Production........................................................ 143,800 143,000 – Transportation and material moving................................ 226,600 206,800 19,800 1 The number of workers represented by the survey are rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of the number of workers provide a description of size and composition of the labor force included in the survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for comparison to other statistical series to measure employment trends or levels. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Appendix table 2. Survey establishment response, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA, January 2008 Private State and Establishments Total industry local government Total in sampling frame(1)............................................ 89,245 86,332 2,913 Total in sample....................................................... 734 669 65 Responding........................................................ 407 355 52 Refused or unable to provide data................................. 208 195 13 Out of business or not in survey scope............................ 119 119 0 1 The list of establishments from which the survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was developed from State unemployment insurance reports and is based on the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). For private industries, an establishment is usually a single physical location. For State and local governments, an establishment is defined as all locations of a government entity. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria.