NC BL 09/00/2004 Table: Pittsburgh, PA, Bulletin 3125-05, December 2003 Table 1-1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours by selected characteristics, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2003 Total Private industry State and local government Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Worker and establishment characteristics Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) Total................................................................. $17.78 2.4 35.6 $16.76 2.8 35.5 $23.62 2.9 36.3 Worker characteristics:(4) White-collar occupations(5)......................................... 21.02 3.1 35.7 19.87 3.8 35.9 27.79 2.4 34.5 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 28.06 2.9 34.9 26.38 4.1 35.6 33.83 2.2 32.8 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.15 4.7 39.2 28.01 5.1 39.2 29.39 10.6 38.6 Sales............................................................. 10.43 4.9 31.2 10.33 4.9 31.3 – – – Administrative support............................................ 13.31 2.6 37.1 13.02 3.1 37.1 15.30 3.8 37.1 Blue-collar occupations(5).......................................... 15.69 2.3 38.2 15.33 2.5 38.1 18.65 3.1 39.1 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.29 3.0 39.7 18.34 3.3 39.6 17.71 3.3 39.7 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors....................................................... 13.54 6.1 39.6 13.54 6.1 39.6 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.49 3.1 37.9 15.54 3.9 37.7 19.30 1.6 38.7 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers..................................................... 13.18 5.9 35.3 12.57 6.4 34.8 18.34 8.4 39.6 Service occupations(5).............................................. 11.62 3.5 32.8 9.78 3.1 31.6 18.84 6.6 38.4 Full time........................................................... 18.86 2.6 39.3 17.86 3.0 39.4 24.03 2.4 39.0 Part time........................................................... 9.88 4.3 21.1 9.53 4.4 21.6 15.50 17.6 15.4 Union............................................................... 19.85 4.4 37.5 17.56 6.1 37.1 23.67 3.6 38.1 Nonunion............................................................ 16.85 3.0 34.9 16.53 3.1 35.1 23.46 4.3 31.0 Time................................................................ 17.83 2.4 35.6 16.79 2.8 35.5 23.62 2.9 36.3 Incentive........................................................... 16.15 5.9 37.9 16.15 5.9 37.9 – – – Establishment characteristics: Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 18.34 6.9 39.4 (6) (6) (6) Service producing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 16.31 3.0 34.5 (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers(7).................................................... 15.23 5.5 35.3 15.04 5.6 35.2 21.88 1.9 39.1 100-499 workers..................................................... 16.74 4.6 35.5 15.73 4.7 35.4 27.46 6.5 36.3 500 workers or more................................................. 19.92 2.9 36.0 19.00 3.4 35.9 22.52 4.0 36.2 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 5 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-producing industries applies to private industry only. 7 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2003 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $17.78 2.4 $16.76 2.8 $23.62 2.9 All excluding sales............................................... 18.36 2.5 17.36 2.9 23.70 3.0 White collar........................................................ 21.02 3.1 19.87 3.8 27.79 2.4 White collar excluding sales.................................... 22.65 3.3 21.59 4.1 28.00 2.4 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 28.06 2.9 26.38 4.1 33.83 2.2 Professional specialty.......................................... 29.54 2.6 27.70 3.9 34.85 1.6 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 38.46 8.6 38.46 8.6 – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 41.59 13.1 41.59 13.1 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 28.85 5.3 28.85 5.3 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 29.34 4.9 29.34 4.9 – – Natural scientists............................................ 25.30 5.4 25.30 5.4 – – Health related................................................ 26.56 2.1 26.65 2.2 – – Registered nurses........................................... 23.69 2.6 23.72 2.7 – – Pharmacists................................................. 36.54 1.9 36.54 1.9 – – Physical therapists......................................... 29.07 4.8 29.07 4.8 – – Therapists, n.e.c........................................... 15.79 13.4 15.18 13.6 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 29.44 6.1 25.25 .5 37.52 2.9 Other post-secondary teachers............................... 27.33 15.4 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 33.65 3.9 17.10 13.2 36.10 2.9 Elementary school teachers.................................. 37.48 1.1 – – 38.04 1.1 Secondary school teachers................................... 35.23 1.8 – – 35.72 1.4 Teachers, special education................................. 38.48 8.7 22.17 16.3 – – Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 33.98 23.8 – – – – Substitute teachers......................................... 12.55 6.4 – – 12.71 6.2 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 22.82 10.8 22.84 10.9 – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 27.11 7.0 27.23 9.1 – – Psychologists............................................... 22.29 7.5 – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 13.91 6.4 10.56 8.6 – – Social workers.............................................. 15.52 16.7 – – – – Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 30.13 25.4 30.13 25.4 – – Editors and reporters....................................... 23.60 11.8 23.60 11.8 – – Technical....................................................... 21.47 11.4 21.61 12.3 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 16.75 6.9 16.75 6.9 – – Health record technologists and technicians................. 17.02 6.2 17.02 6.2 – – Radiological technicians.................................... 19.13 2.1 19.13 2.1 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 16.08 2.1 16.05 2.3 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 12.64 4.1 12.64 4.1 – – Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 25.19 8.4 – – – – Drafters.................................................... 22.74 12.5 22.74 12.5 – – Computer programmers........................................ 27.72 9.0 27.72 9.0 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.15 4.7 28.01 5.1 29.39 10.6 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... $34.00 5.0 $34.20 5.5 $32.76 11.0 Financial managers.......................................... 38.82 22.9 38.82 22.9 – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 37.07 13.0 37.07 13.0 – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 27.86 9.7 – – 33.55 22.2 Managers, medicine and health............................... 25.82 14.4 25.82 14.4 – – Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 29.12 34.6 29.12 34.6 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 38.64 15.8 39.07 17.0 – – Management related............................................ 21.58 4.7 21.55 5.0 – – Accountants and auditors.................................... 21.08 8.2 20.94 9.1 – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 24.41 13.2 24.41 13.2 – – Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 22.01 7.9 22.01 7.9 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 22.69 5.3 22.69 5.3 – – Sales............................................................. 10.43 4.9 10.33 4.9 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 9.47 6.5 9.47 6.5 – – Cashiers.................................................... 7.74 5.2 7.32 2.9 – – Sales support, n.e.c........................................ 8.67 18.0 8.67 18.0 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.31 2.6 13.02 3.1 15.30 3.8 Secretaries................................................. 15.05 3.7 14.07 4.1 17.37 5.2 Stenographers............................................... 14.49 4.0 13.19 1.0 – – Receptionists............................................... 10.27 6.3 10.27 6.3 – – Information clerks, n.e.c................................... 11.96 10.2 11.96 10.2 – – Order clerks................................................ 16.72 12.7 16.72 12.7 – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 11.96 3.2 11.96 3.2 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 13.40 6.3 13.26 6.9 – – Billing clerks.............................................. 12.80 1.9 12.80 1.9 – – Telephone operators......................................... 13.90 9.2 13.90 9.2 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.93 8.9 10.93 8.9 – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 11.80 6.8 11.36 6.6 – – Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 15.04 17.9 15.04 17.9 – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 13.77 7.3 13.77 7.3 – – General office clerks....................................... 12.96 5.4 12.59 7.1 – – Bank tellers................................................ 10.64 10.1 10.64 10.1 – – Teachers' aides............................................. 11.36 6.8 – – – – Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 12.80 7.1 13.03 8.1 – – Blue collar......................................................... 15.69 2.3 15.33 2.5 18.65 3.1 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.29 3.0 18.34 3.3 17.71 3.3 Automobile mechanics........................................ 17.71 1.1 17.73 1.4 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 21.00 4.0 21.00 4.0 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 14.94 14.4 14.94 14.4 – – Carpenters.................................................. 20.21 9.3 – – – – Electricians................................................ 17.54 6.0 – – – – Machinists.................................................. 16.14 4.7 16.14 4.7 – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. $12.47 2.0 $12.47 2.0 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.54 6.1 13.54 6.1 – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 14.93 11.3 14.93 11.3 – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 13.56 15.7 13.56 15.7 – – Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 17.38 9.0 17.38 9.0 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 13.27 4.1 13.27 4.1 – – Welders and cutters......................................... 17.08 11.3 17.08 11.3 – – Assemblers.................................................. 11.38 .1 11.38 .1 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.49 3.1 15.54 3.9 $19.30 1.6 Truck drivers............................................... 15.49 6.2 15.36 6.9 – – Bus drivers................................................. 17.41 9.5 – – – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 14.82 3.7 14.82 3.7 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 13.18 5.9 12.57 6.4 18.34 8.4 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.57 13.3 8.57 13.3 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 18.69 2.1 18.69 2.1 – – Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 10.03 19.2 10.03 19.2 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 10.78 5.8 10.78 5.8 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 14.75 6.3 13.73 3.1 – – Service............................................................. 11.62 3.5 9.78 3.1 18.84 6.6 Protective service............................................ 17.13 7.8 9.22 5.4 24.48 5.9 Police and detectives, public service....................... 26.10 2.1 – – 26.10 2.1 Guards and police, except public service.................... 9.16 3.9 9.16 3.9 – – Food service.................................................. 7.11 6.5 6.82 6.4 11.36 4.2 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 4.31 9.5 4.31 9.5 – – Bartenders.................................................. 6.27 11.0 6.27 11.0 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.99 2.8 2.99 2.8 – – Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants............................. 5.98 3.1 5.98 3.1 – – Other food service........................................... 9.07 3.9 8.80 4.4 11.36 4.2 Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 10.34 15.6 10.34 15.6 – – Cooks....................................................... 9.84 4.7 9.85 4.7 – – Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 7.80 8.2 7.80 8.2 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.86 3.6 8.14 .8 11.47 3.7 Health service................................................ 10.36 3.0 10.10 2.8 – – Health aides, except nursing................................ 10.14 5.4 10.11 5.3 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.51 3.3 10.13 3.0 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 12.13 5.2 11.19 8.5 14.37 1.3 Maids and housemen.......................................... 8.94 8.4 8.87 8.6 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 12.48 3.6 11.51 6.7 14.41 1.1 Personal service.............................................. 14.62 11.0 14.79 13.3 – – Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 12.50 14.3 – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2003 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $18.86 2.6 $17.86 3.0 $24.03 2.4 All excluding sales............................................... 19.23 2.7 18.25 3.1 24.08 2.5 White collar........................................................ 22.01 3.3 20.85 4.0 28.38 2.7 White collar excluding sales.................................... 23.06 3.5 21.95 4.3 28.52 2.8 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 28.58 3.0 26.73 4.5 34.81 1.9 Professional specialty.......................................... 30.23 2.7 28.17 4.3 36.01 .8 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 38.46 8.6 38.46 8.6 – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 41.59 13.1 41.59 13.1 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 28.85 5.3 28.85 5.3 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 29.34 4.9 29.34 4.9 – – Natural scientists............................................ 25.30 5.4 25.30 5.4 – – Health related................................................ 26.73 2.4 26.80 2.5 – – Registered nurses........................................... 23.60 2.7 23.58 2.8 – – Pharmacists................................................. 36.07 1.5 36.07 1.5 – – Physical therapists......................................... 29.21 4.8 29.21 4.8 – – Therapists, n.e.c........................................... 15.79 13.4 15.18 13.6 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 29.50 6.3 25.16 .5 38.29 1.4 Other post-secondary teachers............................... 27.23 15.0 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 34.91 4.1 17.45 14.8 37.49 1.9 Elementary school teachers.................................. 37.48 1.1 – – 38.04 1.1 Secondary school teachers................................... 35.55 1.4 – – 36.04 .7 Teachers, special education................................. 39.23 6.2 25.89 3.6 – – Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 35.73 25.3 – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 23.06 10.5 23.06 10.5 – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 27.10 7.1 27.21 9.1 – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 14.94 4.3 10.89 16.7 – – Social workers.............................................. 17.31 13.6 – – – – Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 30.43 24.9 30.43 24.9 – – Editors and reporters....................................... 23.60 11.8 23.60 11.8 – – Technical....................................................... 21.70 11.8 21.86 12.7 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 16.82 7.2 16.82 7.2 – – Health record technologists and technicians................. 17.02 6.2 17.02 6.2 – – Radiological technicians.................................... 19.25 .6 19.25 .6 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 16.13 2.3 16.10 2.6 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 12.60 4.3 12.60 4.3 – – Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 25.19 8.4 – – – – Drafters.................................................... 22.74 12.5 22.74 12.5 – – Computer programmers........................................ 27.72 9.0 27.72 9.0 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.15 4.7 28.01 5.1 29.39 10.6 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 33.97 5.0 34.17 5.6 32.76 11.0 Financial managers.......................................... 38.82 22.9 38.82 22.9 – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... $37.07 13.0 $37.07 13.0 – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 27.86 9.7 – – $33.55 22.2 Managers, medicine and health............................... 25.82 14.4 25.82 14.4 – – Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 29.12 34.6 29.12 34.6 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 38.65 16.2 39.10 17.5 – – Management related............................................ 21.60 4.7 21.56 5.1 – – Accountants and auditors.................................... 21.08 8.2 20.94 9.1 – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 24.41 13.2 24.41 13.2 – – Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 22.22 8.7 22.22 8.7 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 22.69 5.3 22.69 5.3 – – Sales............................................................. 12.20 6.4 12.09 6.5 – – Cashiers.................................................... 9.55 8.8 8.66 4.3 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.62 2.6 13.33 3.0 15.49 4.4 Secretaries................................................. 15.23 3.6 14.27 4.1 17.37 5.2 Stenographers............................................... 14.58 4.0 – – – – Receptionists............................................... 10.58 6.1 10.58 6.1 – – Order clerks................................................ 16.74 12.7 16.74 12.7 – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 12.19 3.8 12.19 3.8 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 13.42 6.3 13.28 6.9 – – Billing clerks.............................................. 12.80 1.9 12.80 1.9 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.94 9.1 10.94 9.1 – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 11.80 6.8 11.36 6.6 – – Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 15.04 17.9 15.04 17.9 – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 13.75 7.5 13.75 7.5 – – General office clerks....................................... 13.24 5.9 12.91 7.9 – – Teachers' aides............................................. 11.36 6.8 – – – – Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 13.69 9.3 13.69 9.3 – – Blue collar......................................................... 16.17 2.4 15.84 2.6 18.70 3.1 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.37 3.2 18.43 3.5 17.71 3.3 Automobile mechanics........................................ 17.71 1.1 17.73 1.4 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 21.00 4.0 21.00 4.0 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 14.98 14.5 14.98 14.5 – – Carpenters.................................................. 20.21 9.3 – – – – Electricians................................................ 17.54 6.0 – – – – Machinists.................................................. 16.14 4.7 16.14 4.7 – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 12.47 2.0 12.47 2.0 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.63 6.1 13.63 6.1 – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 14.93 11.3 14.93 11.3 – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 13.56 15.7 13.56 15.7 – – Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 17.38 9.0 17.38 9.0 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 13.27 4.1 13.27 4.1 – – Welders and cutters......................................... $17.08 11.3 $17.08 11.3 – – Assemblers.................................................. 11.39 .0 11.39 .0 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.86 2.9 15.96 3.8 $19.42 1.4 Truck drivers............................................... 15.58 6.2 15.46 6.9 – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 14.82 3.7 14.82 3.7 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 14.46 6.3 13.89 7.0 18.34 8.4 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 13.23 10.3 13.23 10.3 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 11.52 3.1 11.52 3.1 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 15.34 6.2 14.36 4.1 – – Service............................................................. 13.00 3.8 10.91 3.3 19.30 5.7 Protective service............................................ 18.55 7.4 9.71 7.3 25.04 3.6 Police and detectives, public service....................... 26.10 2.1 – – 26.10 2.1 Guards and police, except public service.................... 9.57 4.9 9.57 4.9 – – Food service.................................................. 8.69 11.5 8.32 12.8 – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 4.90 22.6 4.90 22.6 – – Other food service........................................... 10.42 3.9 10.17 4.9 – – Cooks....................................................... 10.48 4.3 10.48 4.3 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 10.32 5.0 9.50 5.1 – – Health service................................................ 10.42 3.3 10.13 3.0 – – Health aides, except nursing................................ 10.18 6.0 10.15 5.9 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.58 3.7 10.16 3.2 – – Cleaning and building service................................. $13.02 5.4 $12.25 9.1 $14.52 1.3 Maids and housemen.......................................... 9.19 9.9 9.04 10.1 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 13.49 3.9 12.85 7.4 14.46 1.0 Personal service.............................................. 15.66 13.1 16.02 16.2 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 2-3. Mean hourly earnings,(1) part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2003 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $9.88 4.3 $9.53 4.4 $15.50 17.6 All excluding sales............................................... 10.63 5.0 10.23 5.1 15.74 20.2 White collar........................................................ 12.65 5.4 12.20 5.5 17.88 16.6 White collar excluding sales.................................... 17.07 6.6 16.86 6.9 18.51 20.2 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 22.35 5.4 22.73 5.2 20.68 19.5 Professional specialty.......................................... 22.95 5.5 23.54 5.4 20.68 19.5 Health related................................................ 25.90 4.5 26.07 4.5 – – Registered nurses........................................... 24.02 3.4 24.18 3.4 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 19.53 21.4 13.41 13.0 20.50 23.1 Substitute teachers......................................... 10.93 6.2 – – 11.04 6.3 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 9.72 17.8 9.72 17.8 – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 16.08 5.8 16.08 5.8 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... – – – – – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... – – – – – – Management related............................................ – – – – – – Sales............................................................. 7.18 2.1 7.12 1.9 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 7.45 1.9 7.45 1.9 – – Cashiers.................................................... 6.79 2.8 6.68 2.6 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 9.72 5.1 9.67 5.5 10.57 8.6 Secretaries................................................. 10.12 9.0 10.12 9.0 – – General office clerks....................................... 9.05 8.2 – – – – Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 10.34 9.4 – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 8.32 5.0 8.09 4.4 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... – – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 11.28 11.7 10.65 14.9 – – Bus drivers................................................. 13.31 6.3 – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 7.29 7.5 7.29 7.5 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 6.45 3.5 6.45 3.5 – – Service............................................................. 6.98 3.4 6.82 3.2 10.34 3.8 Protective service............................................ – – – – – – Food service.................................................. $5.87 2.5 $5.75 2.1 – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 4.02 6.2 4.02 6.2 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.04 3.0 3.04 3.0 – – Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants............................. 6.03 4.7 6.03 4.7 – – Other food service........................................... 7.65 2.4 7.51 2.4 – – Cooks....................................................... 8.52 3.6 8.49 3.8 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 7.57 2.8 7.31 4.1 – – Health service................................................ 9.85 3.8 9.85 3.8 – – Health aides, except nursing................................ 9.38 7.3 9.38 7.3 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 9.95 3.9 9.95 3.9 – – Cleaning and building service................................. $7.88 4.3 $7.60 2.9 – – Maids and housemen.......................................... 7.55 6.4 – – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.93 5.1 7.58 3.4 – – Personal service.............................................. 7.79 8.2 7.71 8.9 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2003 Total Private industry State and local government Weekly earnings Weekly earnings Weekly earnings Occupation(3) Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All................................................................... $742 2.6 39.3 $704 3.0 39.4 $937 2.4 39.0 All excluding sales............................................... 757 2.7 39.3 719 3.2 39.4 939 2.4 39.0 White collar........................................................ 863 3.4 39.2 821 4.1 39.4 1,086 2.7 38.3 White collar excluding sales.................................... 904 3.6 39.2 865 4.4 39.4 1,092 2.7 38.3 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 1,119 3.1 39.1 1,056 4.6 39.5 1,322 1.8 38.0 Professional specialty.......................................... 1,182 2.9 39.1 1,114 4.6 39.5 1,366 .5 37.9 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 1,613 12.4 41.9 1,613 12.4 41.9 – – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 1,842 19.4 44.3 1,842 19.4 44.3 – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 1,140 5.6 39.5 1,140 5.6 39.5 – – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 1,168 4.8 39.8 1,168 4.8 39.8 – – – Natural scientists............................................ 1,030 6.0 40.7 1,030 6.0 40.7 – – – Health related................................................ 1,051 2.2 39.3 1,054 2.2 39.3 – – – Registered nurses........................................... 923 2.7 39.1 922 2.8 39.1 – – – Pharmacists................................................. 1,463 1.6 40.6 1,463 1.6 40.6 – – – Physical therapists......................................... 1,129 3.6 38.7 1,129 3.6 38.7 – – – Therapists, n.e.c........................................... 606 15.3 38.4 584 16.5 38.4 – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 1,110 6.0 37.6 956 .7 38.0 1,410 2.8 36.8 Other post-secondary teachers............................... 1,026 15.6 37.7 – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 1,323 3.9 37.9 647 15.6 37.1 1,425 1.1 38.0 Elementary school teachers.................................. 1,415 1.1 37.8 – – – 1,440 .3 37.9 Secondary school teachers................................... 1,335 2.9 37.5 – – – 1,353 2.4 37.5 Teachers, special education................................. 1,544 7.9 39.4 959 1.9 37.1 – – – Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 1,338 25.5 37.5 – – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 872 5.9 37.8 872 5.9 37.8 – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 1,084 7.1 40.0 1,089 9.1 40.0 – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 599 6.9 40.1 454 9.1 41.7 – – – Social workers.............................................. 671 12.3 38.7 – – – – – – Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 1,124 21.7 36.9 1,124 21.7 36.9 – – – Editors and reporters....................................... 901 10.4 38.2 901 10.4 38.2 – – – Technical....................................................... 851 10.6 39.2 860 11.5 39.3 – – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 671 7.2 39.9 671 7.2 39.9 – – – Health record technologists and technicians................. 681 6.2 40.0 681 6.2 40.0 – – – Radiological technicians.................................... 765 .6 39.8 765 .6 39.8 – – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 619 1.9 38.4 612 1.4 38.0 – – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 517 2.4 41.0 517 2.4 41.0 – – – Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 969 10.5 38.4 – – – – – – Drafters.................................................... 909 12.5 40.0 909 12.5 40.0 – – – Computer programmers........................................ 1,109 9.0 40.0 1,109 9.0 40.0 – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... $1,111 4.9 39.5 $1,108 5.3 39.6 $1,134 11.3 38.6 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 1,325 5.0 39.0 1,334 5.5 39.1 1,270 12.5 38.8 Financial managers.......................................... 1,496 21.4 38.5 1,496 21.4 38.5 – – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 1,485 11.1 40.1 1,485 11.1 40.1 – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 1,064 11.1 38.2 – – – 1,310 25.8 39.0 Managers, medicine and health............................... 1,077 11.7 41.7 1,077 11.7 41.7 – – – Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 1,068 35.2 36.7 1,068 35.2 36.7 – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 1,538 16.0 39.8 1,559 17.3 39.9 – – – Management related............................................ 863 5.0 40.0 865 5.4 40.1 – – – Accountants and auditors.................................... 832 8.1 39.5 831 9.1 39.7 – – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 960 13.4 39.3 960 13.4 39.3 – – – Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 889 8.7 40.0 889 8.7 40.0 – – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 924 5.6 40.7 924 5.6 40.7 – – – Sales............................................................. 478 6.6 39.2 475 6.7 39.3 – – – Cashiers.................................................... 374 8.3 39.2 341 3.7 39.4 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 533 2.6 39.1 523 3.0 39.2 600 3.8 38.7 Secretaries................................................. 597 3.6 39.2 558 4.4 39.1 685 4.3 39.4 Stenographers............................................... 571 2.7 39.2 – – – – – – Receptionists............................................... 422 6.1 39.9 422 6.1 39.9 – – – Order clerks................................................ 663 12.4 39.6 663 12.4 39.6 – – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 481 3.6 39.5 481 3.6 39.5 – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 521 6.5 38.9 515 7.1 38.8 – – – Billing clerks.............................................. 512 1.9 40.0 512 1.9 40.0 – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 437 9.1 40.0 437 9.1 40.0 – – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 468 6.8 39.7 451 6.9 39.7 – – – Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 585 16.9 38.9 585 16.9 38.9 – – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 539 8.8 39.2 539 8.8 39.2 – – – General office clerks....................................... 520 5.2 39.3 507 7.4 39.3 – – – Teachers' aides............................................. 411 5.1 36.2 – – – – – – Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 536 8.6 39.2 536 8.6 39.2 – – – Blue collar......................................................... 646 2.3 39.9 634 2.5 40.0 740 3.4 39.6 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 731 3.4 39.8 734 3.7 39.8 704 3.5 39.7 Automobile mechanics........................................ 701 1.4 39.6 700 1.8 39.5 – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 840 4.0 40.0 840 4.0 40.0 – – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 596 14.5 39.8 596 14.5 39.8 – – – Carpenters.................................................. 795 8.6 39.3 – – – – – – Electricians................................................ 694 6.2 39.6 – – – – – – Machinists.................................................. $646 4.7 40.0 $646 4.7 40.0 – – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 499 2.0 40.0 499 2.0 40.0 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 545 6.0 39.9 545 6.0 39.9 – – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 597 11.3 40.0 597 11.3 40.0 – – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 542 15.7 40.0 542 15.7 40.0 – – – Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 695 9.0 40.0 695 9.0 40.0 – – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 531 4.1 40.0 531 4.1 40.0 – – – Welders and cutters......................................... 683 11.3 40.0 683 11.3 40.0 – – – Assemblers.................................................. 455 .0 40.0 455 .0 40.0 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 678 2.6 40.2 646 3.3 40.5 $766 1.5 39.4 Truck drivers............................................... 636 4.8 40.9 633 5.2 40.9 – – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 593 3.7 40.0 593 3.7 40.0 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 577 6.3 39.9 554 7.0 39.9 726 9.2 39.6 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 516 10.9 39.0 516 10.9 39.0 – – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 461 3.1 40.0 461 3.1 40.0 – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 614 6.2 40.0 575 4.1 40.0 – – – Service............................................................. 505 4.0 38.8 420 3.5 38.5 772 5.6 40.0 Protective service............................................ 751 7.4 40.5 393 6.6 40.4 1,015 3.5 40.5 Police and detectives, public service....................... 1,044 2.1 40.0 – – – 1,044 2.1 40.0 Guards and police, except public service.................... 382 4.8 40.0 382 4.8 40.0 – – – Food service.................................................. 331 12.3 38.0 318 13.7 38.2 – – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 180 26.4 36.8 180 26.4 36.8 – – – Other food service........................................... 403 4.5 38.6 397 5.4 39.0 – – – Cooks....................................................... 405 5.2 38.6 405 5.2 38.6 – – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 392 6.3 38.0 368 6.2 38.8 – – – Health service................................................ 410 3.9 39.3 398 3.6 39.3 – – – Health aides, except nursing................................ 405 6.2 39.8 404 6.1 39.8 – – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 413 4.5 39.0 395 4.0 38.9 – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 515 5.7 39.6 483 9.5 39.5 578 1.1 39.8 Maids and housemen.......................................... 355 12.8 38.6 348 13.1 38.5 – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 537 3.7 39.8 511 7.1 39.8 576 .9 39.9 Personal service.............................................. 542 8.3 34.6 540 9.7 33.7 – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2003 Total Private industry State and local government Annual earnings Annual earnings Annual earnings Occupation(3) Mean Mean Mean annual annual annual Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All................................................................... $37,522 2.6 1,990 $36,236 3.0 2,028 $43,520 2.4 1,811 All excluding sales............................................... 38,221 2.7 1,987 37,003 3.2 2,028 43,580 2.4 1,810 White collar........................................................ 43,092 3.4 1,958 42,217 4.1 2,025 47,022 2.7 1,657 White collar excluding sales.................................... 44,952 3.6 1,950 44,404 4.4 2,023 47,164 2.7 1,654 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 53,031 3.1 1,855 53,359 4.6 1,996 52,203 1.8 1,500 Professional specialty.......................................... 54,898 2.9 1,816 55,848 4.6 1,983 52,924 .5 1,470 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 83,882 12.4 2,181 83,882 12.4 2,181 – – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 95,798 19.4 2,304 95,798 19.4 2,304 – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 59,277 5.6 2,055 59,277 5.6 2,055 – – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 60,731 4.8 2,070 60,731 4.8 2,070 – – – Natural scientists............................................ 53,536 6.0 2,116 53,536 6.0 2,116 – – – Health related................................................ 54,672 2.2 2,045 54,826 2.2 2,046 – – – Registered nurses........................................... 47,985 2.7 2,033 47,944 2.8 2,033 – – – Pharmacists................................................. 76,081 1.6 2,109 76,081 1.6 2,109 – – – Physical therapists......................................... 58,730 3.6 2,010 58,730 3.6 2,010 – – – Therapists, n.e.c........................................... 31,499 15.3 1,995 30,352 16.5 1,999 – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 46,028 6.0 1,560 41,283 .7 1,641 54,333 2.8 1,419 Other post-secondary teachers............................... 42,165 15.6 1,549 – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 50,765 3.9 1,454 29,653 15.6 1,699 53,377 1.1 1,424 Elementary school teachers.................................. 52,671 1.1 1,405 – – – 53,626 .3 1,410 Secondary school teachers................................... 49,888 2.9 1,403 – – – 50,561 2.4 1,403 Teachers, special education................................. 58,566 7.9 1,493 36,877 1.9 1,425 – – – Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 55,407 25.5 1,551 – – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 45,154 5.9 1,958 45,154 5.9 1,958 – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 55,051 7.1 2,032 56,606 9.1 2,080 – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 25,339 6.9 1,696 17,222 9.1 1,582 – – – Social workers.............................................. 34,692 12.3 2,004 – – – – – – Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 58,297 21.7 1,916 58,297 21.7 1,916 – – – Editors and reporters....................................... 46,871 10.4 1,986 46,871 10.4 1,986 – – – Technical....................................................... 44,271 10.6 2,040 44,695 11.5 2,044 – – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 34,915 7.2 2,076 34,915 7.2 2,076 – – – Health record technologists and technicians................. 35,403 6.2 2,080 35,403 6.2 2,080 – – – Radiological technicians.................................... 39,800 .6 2,068 39,800 .6 2,068 – – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 32,209 1.9 1,997 31,823 1.4 1,977 – – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 26,895 2.4 2,134 26,895 2.4 2,134 – – – Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 50,365 10.5 1,999 – – – – – – Drafters.................................................... 47,293 12.5 2,080 47,293 12.5 2,080 – – – Computer programmers........................................ 57,668 9.0 2,080 57,668 9.0 2,080 – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... $57,561 4.9 2,044 $57,452 5.3 2,051 $58,452 11.3 1,989 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 68,471 5.0 2,016 69,005 5.5 2,020 65,184 12.5 1,990 Financial managers.......................................... 77,774 21.4 2,003 77,774 21.4 2,003 – – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 77,208 11.1 2,083 77,208 11.1 2,083 – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 53,841 11.1 1,933 – – – 66,218 25.8 1,974 Managers, medicine and health............................... 56,018 11.7 2,170 56,018 11.7 2,170 – – – Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 54,918 35.2 1,886 54,918 35.2 1,886 – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 79,978 16.0 2,069 81,060 17.3 2,073 – – – Management related............................................ 44,883 5.0 2,078 44,972 5.4 2,086 – – – Accountants and auditors.................................... 43,251 8.1 2,052 43,217 9.1 2,064 – – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 49,911 13.4 2,045 49,911 13.4 2,045 – – – Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 46,221 8.7 2,080 46,221 8.7 2,080 – – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 48,037 5.6 2,117 48,037 5.6 2,117 – – – Sales............................................................. 24,878 6.6 2,039 24,683 6.7 2,041 – – – Cashiers.................................................... 19,455 8.3 2,037 17,723 3.7 2,048 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 27,433 2.6 2,014 27,115 3.0 2,034 29,356 3.8 1,895 Secretaries................................................. 30,977 3.6 2,034 29,034 4.4 2,034 35,355 4.3 2,035 Stenographers............................................... 27,526 2.7 1,888 – – – – – – Receptionists............................................... 21,943 6.1 2,074 21,943 6.1 2,074 – – – Order clerks................................................ 34,488 12.4 2,061 34,488 12.4 2,061 – – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 25,028 3.6 2,054 25,028 3.6 2,054 – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 27,113 6.5 2,021 26,802 7.1 2,019 – – – Billing clerks.............................................. 26,627 1.9 2,080 26,627 1.9 2,080 – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 22,749 9.1 2,080 22,749 9.1 2,080 – – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 24,348 6.8 2,063 23,447 6.9 2,065 – – – Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 30,419 16.9 2,022 30,419 16.9 2,022 – – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 28,037 8.8 2,038 28,037 8.8 2,038 – – – General office clerks....................................... 27,033 5.2 2,042 26,376 7.4 2,043 – – – Teachers' aides............................................. 16,340 5.1 1,439 – – – – – – Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 27,875 8.6 2,036 27,875 8.6 2,036 – – – Blue collar......................................................... 33,405 2.3 2,066 32,745 2.5 2,067 38,462 3.4 2,057 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 37,694 3.4 2,052 37,806 3.7 2,051 36,585 3.5 2,066 Automobile mechanics........................................ 36,443 1.4 2,057 36,381 1.8 2,052 – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 43,676 4.0 2,080 43,676 4.0 2,080 – – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 31,014 14.5 2,070 31,014 14.5 2,070 – – – Carpenters.................................................. 36,398 8.6 1,801 – – – – – – Electricians................................................ 36,091 6.2 2,057 – – – – – – Machinists.................................................. $33,579 4.7 2,080 $33,579 4.7 2,080 – – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 25,930 2.0 2,080 25,930 2.0 2,080 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 28,284 6.0 2,075 28,284 6.0 2,075 – – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 31,060 11.3 2,080 31,060 11.3 2,080 – – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 28,067 15.7 2,071 28,067 15.7 2,071 – – – Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 36,155 9.0 2,080 36,155 9.0 2,080 – – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 27,424 4.1 2,067 27,424 4.1 2,067 – – – Welders and cutters......................................... 35,536 11.3 2,080 35,536 11.3 2,080 – – – Assemblers.................................................. 23,684 .0 2,080 23,684 .0 2,080 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 35,248 2.6 2,091 33,598 3.3 2,105 $39,834 1.5 2,051 Truck drivers............................................... 33,096 4.8 2,125 32,906 5.2 2,129 – – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 30,835 3.7 2,080 30,835 3.7 2,080 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 29,646 6.3 2,050 28,452 7.0 2,049 37,743 9.2 2,058 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 26,822 10.9 2,028 26,822 10.9 2,028 – – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 23,957 3.1 2,080 23,957 3.1 2,080 – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 31,909 6.2 2,080 29,878 4.1 2,080 – – – Service............................................................. 25,777 4.0 1,983 21,544 3.5 1,975 38,720 5.6 2,006 Protective service............................................ 37,485 7.4 2,021 18,589 6.6 1,914 52,791 3.5 2,108 Police and detectives, public service....................... 54,297 2.1 2,080 – – – 54,297 2.1 2,080 Guards and police, except public service.................... 19,886 4.8 2,078 19,886 4.8 2,078 – – – Food service.................................................. 16,644 12.3 1,915 16,508 13.7 1,985 – – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 9,374 26.4 1,915 9,374 26.4 1,915 – – – Other food service........................................... 19,962 4.5 1,915 20,594 5.4 2,024 – – – Cooks....................................................... 20,986 5.2 2,002 20,986 5.2 2,002 – – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 18,429 6.3 1,786 19,154 6.2 2,015 – – – Health service................................................ 21,302 3.9 2,045 20,684 3.6 2,042 – – – Health aides, except nursing................................ 21,085 6.2 2,071 21,011 6.1 2,070 – – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 21,488 4.5 2,030 20,555 4.0 2,024 – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 26,697 5.7 2,050 24,985 9.5 2,040 30,060 1.1 2,070 Maids and housemen.......................................... 18,437 12.8 2,006 18,112 13.1 2,002 – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 27,774 3.7 2,060 26,351 7.1 2,051 29,962 .9 2,073 Personal service.............................................. 27,121 8.3 1,732 27,973 9.7 1,746 – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-1. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) all workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2003 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $17.78 2.4 $16.76 2.8 $23.62 2.9 All excluding sales............................................... 18.36 2.5 17.36 2.9 23.70 3.0 White collar........................................................ 21.02 3.1 19.87 3.8 27.79 2.4 1....................................................... 7.42 5.7 7.31 5.8 – – 2....................................................... 9.04 2.2 9.04 2.2 – – 3....................................................... 10.36 3.5 10.26 3.6 – – 4....................................................... 13.99 3.3 13.80 4.2 14.74 3.2 5....................................................... 15.26 2.9 14.98 3.4 17.30 8.6 6....................................................... 17.09 3.8 15.89 4.1 – – 7....................................................... 21.73 2.9 19.91 2.7 30.04 4.3 8....................................................... 23.84 5.6 22.27 2.4 31.33 11.6 9....................................................... 29.22 4.5 25.86 4.7 37.35 3.4 10........................................................ 29.50 5.0 29.38 5.2 – – 11........................................................ 37.56 8.6 38.21 10.5 34.69 9.1 12........................................................ 43.95 3.9 43.96 4.3 – – 13........................................................ 54.47 1.6 54.47 1.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 22.17 13.6 22.17 13.6 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 22.65 3.3 21.59 4.1 28.00 2.4 1....................................................... 9.05 6.4 8.85 6.2 – – 2....................................................... 9.57 2.7 9.57 2.7 – – 3....................................................... 11.43 1.8 11.31 1.9 – – 4....................................................... 14.10 3.4 13.97 4.4 14.58 2.8 5....................................................... 15.43 3.4 15.14 4.0 17.30 8.6 6....................................................... 17.18 4.1 15.93 4.3 – – 7....................................................... 21.75 3.0 19.82 2.7 30.04 4.3 8....................................................... 24.12 5.7 22.56 2.8 31.33 11.6 9....................................................... 29.06 4.6 25.55 4.6 37.35 3.4 10........................................................ 29.42 5.0 29.30 5.2 – – 11........................................................ 37.57 8.7 38.24 10.7 34.69 9.1 12........................................................ 43.95 3.9 43.96 4.3 – – 13........................................................ 54.47 1.6 54.47 1.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 28.88 15.5 28.88 15.5 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 28.06 2.9 26.38 4.1 33.83 2.2 Professional specialty.......................................... 29.54 2.6 27.70 3.9 34.85 1.6 5....................................................... 14.39 7.7 14.72 7.8 – – 6....................................................... 15.88 9.7 13.07 2.4 – – 7....................................................... 24.71 5.0 21.12 3.8 33.59 5.8 8....................................................... 26.55 6.9 24.36 2.6 33.27 8.2 9....................................................... 30.36 4.6 25.54 4.0 37.60 3.3 10........................................................ 30.84 4.2 30.72 4.6 – – 11........................................................ 34.58 3.6 34.84 3.2 – – 12........................................................ 46.34 5.8 46.85 6.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 28.59 25.5 28.59 25.5 – – Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 38.46 8.6 38.46 8.6 – – 9....................................................... $30.84 4.1 $30.84 4.1 – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 41.59 13.1 41.59 13.1 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 28.85 5.3 28.85 5.3 – – 9....................................................... 27.99 14.7 27.99 14.7 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 29.34 4.9 29.34 4.9 – – Natural scientists............................................ 25.30 5.4 25.30 5.4 – – Health related................................................ 26.56 2.1 26.65 2.2 – – 7....................................................... 20.84 5.4 20.70 5.4 – – 8....................................................... 23.97 1.7 24.14 1.8 – – 9....................................................... 26.10 2.7 26.10 2.7 – – 10........................................................ 33.89 2.4 33.89 2.4 – – 11........................................................ 33.10 6.1 33.58 6.7 – – Registered nurses........................................... 23.69 2.6 23.72 2.7 – – 7....................................................... 22.17 1.8 22.03 1.6 – – 8....................................................... 23.14 1.1 23.30 1.2 – – 9....................................................... 24.58 2.7 24.58 2.7 – – 11........................................................ 33.01 8.8 – – – – Pharmacists................................................. 36.54 1.9 36.54 1.9 – – 9....................................................... 37.28 3.0 37.28 3.0 – – Physical therapists......................................... 29.07 4.8 29.07 4.8 – – 9....................................................... 29.96 3.9 29.96 3.9 – – Therapists, n.e.c........................................... 15.79 13.4 15.18 13.6 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 29.44 6.1 25.25 .5 $37.52 2.9 12........................................................ 41.71 8.9 – – – – Other post-secondary teachers............................... 27.33 15.4 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 33.65 3.9 17.10 13.2 36.10 2.9 7....................................................... 33.53 6.0 – – 33.87 5.9 8....................................................... 32.27 10.0 20.68 6.7 34.50 5.6 9....................................................... 38.22 3.1 – – 38.87 2.6 Elementary school teachers.................................. 37.48 1.1 – – 38.04 1.1 8....................................................... 35.00 6.5 – – – – Secondary school teachers................................... 35.23 1.8 – – 35.72 1.4 8....................................................... 33.98 7.8 – – 35.59 .0 9....................................................... 35.76 .7 – – 35.90 .6 Teachers, special education................................. 38.48 8.7 22.17 16.3 – – Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 33.98 23.8 – – – – Substitute teachers......................................... 12.55 6.4 – – 12.71 6.2 7....................................................... 11.16 10.8 – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 22.82 10.8 22.84 10.9 – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 27.11 7.0 27.23 9.1 – – Psychologists............................................... 22.29 7.5 – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 13.91 6.4 10.56 8.6 – – Social workers.............................................. 15.52 16.7 – – – – Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 30.13 25.4 30.13 25.4 – – 9....................................................... $22.45 11.8 $22.45 11.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 41.91 22.3 41.91 22.3 – – Editors and reporters....................................... 23.60 11.8 23.60 11.8 – – Technical....................................................... 21.47 11.4 21.61 12.3 – – 4....................................................... 13.91 3.3 13.61 2.9 – – 5....................................................... 15.64 5.9 15.64 6.5 – – 6....................................................... 19.39 5.2 18.38 1.7 – – 7....................................................... 20.70 6.9 20.70 6.9 – – 8....................................................... 21.38 6.2 21.38 6.2 – – 9....................................................... 26.32 7.0 26.32 7.0 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 16.75 6.9 16.75 6.9 – – Health record technologists and technicians................. 17.02 6.2 17.02 6.2 – – Radiological technicians.................................... 19.13 2.1 19.13 2.1 – – 5....................................................... 18.40 3.2 18.40 3.2 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 16.08 2.1 16.05 2.3 – – 4....................................................... 15.63 5.1 14.80 .9 – – 5....................................................... 15.20 2.5 15.10 3.1 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 12.64 4.1 12.64 4.1 – – 4....................................................... 12.31 .6 12.31 .6 – – Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 25.19 8.4 – – – – Drafters.................................................... 22.74 12.5 22.74 12.5 – – Computer programmers........................................ 27.72 9.0 27.72 9.0 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.15 4.7 28.01 5.1 $29.39 10.6 5....................................................... 16.50 7.4 16.50 7.4 – – 7....................................................... 18.52 2.3 18.48 2.3 – – 8....................................................... 21.42 6.1 20.71 6.3 – – 9....................................................... 25.78 6.8 25.38 7.0 – – 10........................................................ 26.69 10.6 26.69 10.6 – – 11........................................................ 35.03 7.1 34.77 9.6 35.75 4.2 12........................................................ 40.25 5.2 40.03 5.8 – – 13........................................................ 54.51 1.1 54.51 1.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 32.66 24.2 32.66 24.2 – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 34.00 5.0 34.20 5.5 32.76 11.0 7....................................................... 18.03 4.9 18.41 5.7 – – 8....................................................... 27.78 7.8 26.73 5.6 – – 9....................................................... 27.04 7.9 26.50 8.6 – – 10........................................................ 29.69 8.0 29.69 8.0 – – 11........................................................ 35.85 8.0 35.90 11.7 35.75 4.2 12........................................................ 40.16 6.1 39.90 7.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 37.62 28.4 37.62 28.4 – – Financial managers.......................................... 38.82 22.9 38.82 22.9 – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 37.07 13.0 37.07 13.0 – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 27.86 9.7 – – 33.55 22.2 11........................................................ 38.82 4.5 – – – – Managers, medicine and health............................... 25.82 14.4 25.82 14.4 – – Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... $29.12 34.6 $29.12 34.6 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 38.64 15.8 39.07 17.0 – – 11........................................................ 30.93 4.2 – – – – 12........................................................ 45.36 6.1 45.19 7.1 – – Management related............................................ 21.58 4.7 21.55 5.0 – – 5....................................................... 16.26 7.3 16.26 7.3 – – 7....................................................... 18.73 3.3 18.51 3.2 – – 8....................................................... 19.61 5.5 19.26 5.7 – – 9....................................................... 23.79 4.7 23.79 4.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.01 9.0 25.01 9.0 – – Accountants and auditors.................................... 21.08 8.2 20.94 9.1 – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 24.41 13.2 24.41 13.2 – – Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 22.01 7.9 22.01 7.9 – – 7....................................................... 20.68 6.3 20.68 6.3 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 22.69 5.3 22.69 5.3 – – Sales............................................................. 10.43 4.9 10.33 4.9 – – 1....................................................... 6.67 7.1 6.67 7.1 – – 2....................................................... 7.76 4.3 7.76 4.3 – – 3....................................................... 8.75 5.5 8.70 5.5 – – 4....................................................... 12.62 9.0 11.72 7.5 – – 5....................................................... 13.50 7.9 13.50 7.9 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 9.47 6.5 9.47 6.5 – – Cashiers.................................................... 7.74 5.2 7.32 2.9 – – 1....................................................... 6.23 5.6 6.23 5.6 – – 2....................................................... 7.91 9.6 7.91 9.6 – – 3....................................................... 7.62 9.3 7.45 9.5 – – Sales support, n.e.c........................................ 8.67 18.0 8.67 18.0 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.31 2.6 13.02 3.1 $15.30 3.8 1....................................................... 9.05 6.4 8.85 6.2 – – 2....................................................... 9.50 2.5 9.51 2.5 – – 3....................................................... 11.38 1.9 11.26 1.9 – – 4....................................................... 14.22 3.7 14.13 4.8 14.49 2.6 5....................................................... 15.21 4.3 14.24 5.0 – – 6....................................................... 16.66 3.9 16.54 4.0 – – 7....................................................... 18.95 6.5 18.64 6.7 – – 8....................................................... 19.66 11.1 19.66 11.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 12.03 24.2 12.03 24.2 – – Secretaries................................................. 15.05 3.7 14.07 4.1 17.37 5.2 3....................................................... 12.32 7.7 11.46 3.7 – – 4....................................................... 13.83 2.8 13.05 3.9 15.30 1.7 5....................................................... 17.90 4.9 15.98 5.5 – – 6....................................................... 18.21 4.9 17.91 5.8 – – 7....................................................... 21.11 1.1 20.91 1.4 – – Stenographers............................................... 14.49 4.0 13.19 1.0 – – 4....................................................... $14.59 4.8 – – – – Receptionists............................................... 10.27 6.3 $10.27 6.3 – – 2....................................................... 10.45 6.0 10.45 6.0 – – Information clerks, n.e.c................................... 11.96 10.2 11.96 10.2 – – Order clerks................................................ 16.72 12.7 16.72 12.7 – – 4....................................................... 20.15 7.9 20.15 7.9 – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 11.96 3.2 11.96 3.2 – – 4....................................................... 11.64 2.8 11.64 2.8 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 13.40 6.3 13.26 6.9 – – 4....................................................... 13.33 4.2 13.33 4.2 – – Billing clerks.............................................. 12.80 1.9 12.80 1.9 – – 4....................................................... 12.75 2.1 12.75 2.1 – – Telephone operators......................................... 13.90 9.2 13.90 9.2 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.93 8.9 10.93 8.9 – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 11.80 6.8 11.36 6.6 – – Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 15.04 17.9 15.04 17.9 – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 13.77 7.3 13.77 7.3 – – 4....................................................... 14.07 10.7 14.07 10.7 – – General office clerks....................................... 12.96 5.4 12.59 7.1 – – 2....................................................... 8.87 7.0 8.95 7.8 – – 4....................................................... 13.96 7.6 – – – – Bank tellers................................................ 10.64 10.1 10.64 10.1 – – 3....................................................... 10.93 9.5 10.93 9.5 – – Teachers' aides............................................. 11.36 6.8 – – – – Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 12.80 7.1 13.03 8.1 – – 4....................................................... 13.02 8.4 – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 15.69 2.3 15.33 2.5 $18.65 3.1 1....................................................... 9.26 4.7 8.90 5.1 – – 2....................................................... 13.68 7.3 13.16 7.9 – – 3....................................................... 13.27 3.1 13.07 2.8 – – 4....................................................... 14.50 7.6 14.46 7.8 – – 5....................................................... 16.69 3.6 16.50 3.9 – – 6....................................................... 18.97 2.9 17.96 4.9 – – 7....................................................... 20.92 2.4 21.25 2.8 19.20 2.3 9....................................................... 26.38 6.0 26.38 6.0 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.29 3.0 18.34 3.3 17.71 3.3 3....................................................... 12.11 1.8 12.11 1.8 – – 4....................................................... 14.28 13.0 14.28 14.6 – – 5....................................................... 16.46 3.4 16.46 3.5 – – 6....................................................... 18.29 5.9 18.02 6.8 – – 7....................................................... 21.28 2.9 21.90 3.4 18.01 1.2 9....................................................... 26.38 6.0 26.38 6.0 – – Automobile mechanics........................................ 17.71 1.1 17.73 1.4 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 21.00 4.0 21.00 4.0 – – 7....................................................... $22.03 2.9 $22.03 2.9 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 14.94 14.4 14.94 14.4 – – Carpenters.................................................. 20.21 9.3 – – – – Electricians................................................ 17.54 6.0 – – – – Machinists.................................................. 16.14 4.7 16.14 4.7 – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 12.47 2.0 12.47 2.0 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.54 6.1 13.54 6.1 – – 2....................................................... 11.10 8.6 11.10 8.6 – – 3....................................................... 12.04 3.5 12.04 3.5 – – 4....................................................... 12.14 11.8 12.14 11.8 – – 5....................................................... 16.23 9.1 16.23 9.1 – – 7....................................................... 18.24 7.0 18.24 7.0 – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 14.93 11.3 14.93 11.3 – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 13.56 15.7 13.56 15.7 – – Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 17.38 9.0 17.38 9.0 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 13.27 4.1 13.27 4.1 – – Welders and cutters......................................... 17.08 11.3 17.08 11.3 – – Assemblers.................................................. 11.38 .1 11.38 .1 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.49 3.1 15.54 3.9 $19.30 1.6 2....................................................... 14.71 12.3 12.34 15.1 – – 3....................................................... 13.49 3.7 13.37 4.0 – – 4....................................................... 16.39 3.4 16.29 3.5 – – 5....................................................... 17.07 6.4 16.91 7.9 – – Truck drivers............................................... 15.49 6.2 15.36 6.9 – – 3....................................................... 14.74 6.7 – – – – 4....................................................... 16.61 4.4 16.47 4.5 – – 5....................................................... 16.76 10.0 16.61 10.5 – – Bus drivers................................................. 17.41 9.5 – – – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 14.82 3.7 14.82 3.7 – – 4....................................................... 15.35 3.6 15.35 3.6 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 13.18 5.9 12.57 6.4 18.34 8.4 1....................................................... 9.31 5.1 8.96 5.5 – – 2....................................................... 15.03 7.8 15.12 8.6 – – 3....................................................... 15.63 6.9 15.12 7.5 – – 4....................................................... 16.57 7.2 16.57 7.2 – – 5....................................................... 18.73 11.3 – – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.57 13.3 8.57 13.3 – – 1....................................................... 6.90 12.4 6.90 12.4 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 18.69 2.1 18.69 2.1 – – Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 10.03 19.2 10.03 19.2 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 10.78 5.8 10.78 5.8 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 14.75 6.3 13.73 3.1 – – 1....................................................... 13.41 6.1 12.55 8.4 – – 2....................................................... $13.03 11.7 $13.03 11.7 – – Service............................................................. 11.62 3.5 9.78 3.1 $18.84 6.6 1....................................................... 7.35 8.1 7.00 8.3 11.70 4.7 2....................................................... 8.93 4.3 8.63 4.0 12.28 8.1 3....................................................... 9.99 2.1 9.13 .8 13.93 3.2 4....................................................... 11.06 5.1 10.46 4.8 – – 5....................................................... 22.53 5.9 22.61 6.1 – – 6....................................................... 16.78 7.3 13.80 6.9 – – 7....................................................... 23.29 5.4 – – – – Protective service............................................ 17.13 7.8 9.22 5.4 24.48 5.9 7....................................................... 24.79 2.5 – – – – Police and detectives, public service....................... 26.10 2.1 – – 26.10 2.1 Guards and police, except public service.................... 9.16 3.9 9.16 3.9 – – Food service.................................................. 7.11 6.5 6.82 6.4 11.36 4.2 1....................................................... 5.74 8.8 5.40 7.6 – – 2....................................................... 7.04 5.5 6.90 5.1 – – 3....................................................... 7.66 5.0 7.18 6.0 – – 4....................................................... 9.96 12.1 10.00 12.5 – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 4.31 9.5 4.31 9.5 – – 1....................................................... 4.21 13.0 4.21 13.0 – – 2....................................................... 3.63 13.7 3.63 13.7 – – 3....................................................... 4.93 9.1 4.93 9.1 – – Bartenders.................................................. 6.27 11.0 6.27 11.0 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.99 2.8 2.99 2.8 – – 1....................................................... 2.97 3.2 2.97 3.2 – – Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants............................. 5.98 3.1 5.98 3.1 – – 1....................................................... 6.18 4.1 6.18 4.1 – – Other food service........................................... 9.07 3.9 8.80 4.4 11.36 4.2 1....................................................... 7.79 5.6 7.21 4.7 – – 2....................................................... 8.61 3.0 8.49 2.6 – – 3....................................................... 9.21 5.2 8.72 3.9 – – 4....................................................... 11.14 7.1 11.25 7.2 – – Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 10.34 15.6 10.34 15.6 – – Cooks....................................................... 9.84 4.7 9.85 4.7 – – 2....................................................... 8.81 2.6 8.81 2.6 – – 3....................................................... 8.66 7.9 8.66 7.9 – – 4....................................................... 10.78 7.0 10.89 7.2 – – Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 7.80 8.2 7.80 8.2 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.86 3.6 8.14 .8 11.47 3.7 1....................................................... 8.17 5.7 7.46 4.5 – – 3....................................................... 10.11 3.5 9.11 1.8 – – Health service................................................ 10.36 3.0 10.10 2.8 – – 2....................................................... 10.15 6.6 9.98 7.0 – – 3....................................................... 10.44 3.7 9.94 2.7 – – 4....................................................... 10.33 2.6 10.33 2.6 – – Health aides, except nursing................................ $10.14 5.4 $10.11 5.3 – – 2....................................................... 9.29 8.5 9.29 8.5 – – 4....................................................... 11.13 6.1 11.13 6.1 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.51 3.3 10.13 3.0 – – 2....................................................... 10.32 6.2 10.14 6.7 – – 3....................................................... 10.81 3.3 10.08 1.5 – – 4....................................................... 10.06 2.1 10.06 2.1 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 12.13 5.2 11.19 8.5 $14.37 1.3 1....................................................... 9.35 10.0 9.08 10.7 – – 2....................................................... 9.45 10.0 8.73 7.4 – – 3....................................................... 13.48 1.4 11.31 5.3 14.16 2.5 4....................................................... 14.93 5.1 14.20 4.8 – – Maids and housemen.......................................... 8.94 8.4 8.87 8.6 – – 1....................................................... 7.52 14.3 7.52 14.3 – – 2....................................................... 9.87 4.6 9.82 2.7 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 12.48 3.6 11.51 6.7 14.41 1.1 1....................................................... 9.82 11.5 9.52 12.6 – – 2....................................................... 9.16 16.9 7.95 7.5 – – 3....................................................... 13.64 1.5 11.42 7.2 14.16 2.5 4....................................................... 15.00 5.0 14.29 4.8 – – Personal service.............................................. 14.62 11.0 14.79 13.3 – – 1....................................................... 6.85 3.4 6.85 3.4 – – 4....................................................... 10.98 11.9 – – – – Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 12.50 14.3 – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information. 3 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-2. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) full-time workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2003 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $18.86 2.6 $17.86 3.0 $24.03 2.4 All excluding sales............................................... 19.23 2.7 18.25 3.1 24.08 2.5 White collar........................................................ 22.01 3.3 20.85 4.0 28.38 2.7 1....................................................... 9.13 7.2 8.82 7.4 – – 2....................................................... 9.53 2.4 9.53 2.4 – – 3....................................................... 11.19 2.9 11.10 3.0 – – 4....................................................... 14.18 3.4 14.00 4.4 14.82 3.7 5....................................................... 15.31 3.0 14.97 3.6 – – 6....................................................... 17.11 3.9 15.90 4.1 – – 7....................................................... 21.98 3.2 19.87 3.0 32.12 3.4 8....................................................... 23.82 6.1 22.06 2.6 31.94 11.0 9....................................................... 29.27 4.8 25.65 5.2 37.75 3.4 10........................................................ 29.45 5.1 29.33 5.4 – – 11........................................................ 37.60 8.6 38.26 10.5 34.69 9.1 12........................................................ 44.27 3.8 43.96 4.3 – – 13........................................................ 54.44 1.6 54.44 1.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 22.25 13.9 22.25 13.9 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 23.06 3.5 21.95 4.3 28.52 2.8 1....................................................... 9.70 6.9 9.40 7.0 – – 2....................................................... 9.69 3.0 9.69 3.0 – – 3....................................................... 11.84 2.0 11.73 2.0 – – 4....................................................... 14.23 3.5 14.10 4.5 14.66 3.4 5....................................................... 15.47 3.6 15.11 4.2 – – 6....................................................... 17.20 4.1 15.94 4.3 – – 7....................................................... 22.01 3.3 19.77 3.0 32.12 3.4 8....................................................... 24.11 6.2 22.36 3.0 31.94 11.0 9....................................................... 29.10 4.8 25.31 5.0 37.75 3.4 10........................................................ 29.37 5.1 29.24 5.4 – – 11........................................................ 37.61 8.8 38.29 10.8 34.69 9.1 12........................................................ 44.27 3.8 43.96 4.3 – – 13........................................................ 54.44 1.6 54.44 1.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 29.23 15.9 29.23 15.9 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 28.58 3.0 26.73 4.5 34.81 1.9 Professional specialty.......................................... 30.23 2.7 28.17 4.3 36.01 .8 5....................................................... 14.91 10.5 14.91 10.5 – – 6....................................................... 15.91 10.0 13.07 2.5 – – 7....................................................... 25.66 5.9 21.17 4.3 37.10 3.3 8....................................................... 26.90 7.6 24.25 3.2 34.20 6.4 9....................................................... 30.56 5.0 25.07 4.4 38.04 3.4 10........................................................ 30.82 4.4 30.69 4.9 – – 11........................................................ 34.61 3.7 34.89 3.3 – – 12........................................................ 46.93 5.7 46.85 6.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 29.03 25.9 29.03 25.9 – – Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 38.46 8.6 38.46 8.6 – – 9....................................................... $30.84 4.1 $30.84 4.1 – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 41.59 13.1 41.59 13.1 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 28.85 5.3 28.85 5.3 – – 9....................................................... 27.99 14.7 27.99 14.7 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 29.34 4.9 29.34 4.9 – – Natural scientists............................................ 25.30 5.4 25.30 5.4 – – Health related................................................ 26.73 2.4 26.80 2.5 – – 7....................................................... 20.72 6.6 20.54 6.8 – – 8....................................................... 23.88 2.1 24.00 2.1 – – 9....................................................... 25.28 1.7 25.28 1.7 – – 11........................................................ 33.42 8.2 – – – – Registered nurses........................................... 23.60 2.7 23.58 2.8 – – 7....................................................... 22.60 1.0 22.43 .7 – – 8....................................................... 22.97 1.4 23.08 1.4 – – 9....................................................... 24.30 3.0 24.30 3.0 – – Pharmacists................................................. 36.07 1.5 36.07 1.5 – – Physical therapists......................................... 29.21 4.8 29.21 4.8 – – Therapists, n.e.c........................................... 15.79 13.4 15.18 13.6 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 29.50 6.3 25.16 .5 $38.29 1.4 Other post-secondary teachers............................... 27.23 15.0 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 34.91 4.1 17.45 14.8 37.49 1.9 7....................................................... 37.51 3.2 – – 37.51 3.2 8....................................................... 32.65 9.3 20.78 6.8 34.95 4.3 9....................................................... 38.75 3.4 – – 39.46 2.7 Elementary school teachers.................................. 37.48 1.1 – – 38.04 1.1 8....................................................... 35.00 6.5 – – – – Secondary school teachers................................... 35.55 1.4 – – 36.04 .7 8....................................................... 33.98 7.8 – – 35.59 .0 9....................................................... 35.77 .7 – – 35.90 .6 Teachers, special education................................. 39.23 6.2 25.89 3.6 – – Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 35.73 25.3 – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 23.06 10.5 23.06 10.5 – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 27.10 7.1 27.21 9.1 – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 14.94 4.3 10.89 16.7 – – Social workers.............................................. 17.31 13.6 – – – – Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 30.43 24.9 30.43 24.9 – – 9....................................................... 22.45 11.8 22.45 11.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 43.18 19.0 43.18 19.0 – – Editors and reporters....................................... 23.60 11.8 23.60 11.8 – – Technical....................................................... 21.70 11.8 21.86 12.7 – – 4....................................................... 13.84 3.8 13.49 3.3 – – 5....................................................... 15.49 6.7 15.49 7.4 – – 6....................................................... 19.43 5.3 18.43 1.9 – – 7....................................................... 20.70 6.9 20.70 6.9 – – 8....................................................... $21.38 6.2 $21.38 6.2 – – 9....................................................... 26.56 7.0 26.56 7.0 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 16.82 7.2 16.82 7.2 – – Health record technologists and technicians................. 17.02 6.2 17.02 6.2 – – Radiological technicians.................................... 19.25 .6 19.25 .6 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 16.13 2.3 16.10 2.6 – – 4....................................................... 15.72 7.2 – – – – 5....................................................... 15.11 2.2 14.98 2.6 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 12.60 4.3 12.60 4.3 – – Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 25.19 8.4 – – – – Drafters.................................................... 22.74 12.5 22.74 12.5 – – Computer programmers........................................ 27.72 9.0 27.72 9.0 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.15 4.7 28.01 5.1 $29.39 10.6 5....................................................... 16.50 7.4 16.50 7.4 – – 7....................................................... 18.47 2.3 18.43 2.3 – – 8....................................................... 21.42 6.1 20.71 6.3 – – 9....................................................... 25.78 6.8 25.38 7.0 – – 10........................................................ 26.69 10.6 26.69 10.6 – – 11........................................................ 35.03 7.1 34.77 9.6 35.75 4.2 12........................................................ 40.25 5.2 40.03 5.8 – – 13........................................................ 54.51 1.1 54.51 1.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 32.50 25.1 32.50 25.1 – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 33.97 5.0 34.17 5.6 32.76 11.0 7....................................................... 18.03 4.9 18.41 5.7 – – 8....................................................... 27.78 7.8 26.73 5.6 – – 9....................................................... 27.04 7.9 26.50 8.6 – – 10........................................................ 29.69 8.0 29.69 8.0 – – 11........................................................ 35.85 8.0 35.90 11.7 35.75 4.2 12........................................................ 40.16 6.1 39.90 7.1 – – Financial managers.......................................... 38.82 22.9 38.82 22.9 – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 37.07 13.0 37.07 13.0 – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 27.86 9.7 – – 33.55 22.2 11........................................................ 38.82 4.5 – – – – Managers, medicine and health............................... 25.82 14.4 25.82 14.4 – – Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 29.12 34.6 29.12 34.6 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 38.65 16.2 39.10 17.5 – – 11........................................................ 30.93 4.2 – – – – 12........................................................ 45.36 6.1 45.19 7.1 – – Management related............................................ 21.60 4.7 21.56 5.1 – – 5....................................................... 16.26 7.3 16.26 7.3 – – 7....................................................... 18.66 3.4 18.43 3.3 – – 8....................................................... 19.61 5.5 19.26 5.7 – – 9....................................................... 23.79 4.7 23.79 4.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.01 9.0 25.01 9.0 – – Accountants and auditors.................................... 21.08 8.2 20.94 9.1 – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ $24.41 13.2 $24.41 13.2 – – Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 22.22 8.7 22.22 8.7 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 22.69 5.3 22.69 5.3 – – Sales............................................................. 12.20 6.4 12.09 6.5 – – 3....................................................... 9.76 6.7 9.76 6.7 – – 5....................................................... 13.67 8.3 13.67 8.3 – – Cashiers.................................................... 9.55 8.8 8.66 4.3 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.62 2.6 13.33 3.0 $15.49 4.4 1....................................................... 9.70 6.9 9.40 7.0 – – 2....................................................... 9.63 2.9 9.63 2.9 – – 3....................................................... 11.79 2.0 11.67 2.0 – – 4....................................................... 14.25 3.7 14.16 4.9 14.57 3.3 5....................................................... 15.21 4.3 14.24 5.0 – – 6....................................................... 16.66 3.9 16.54 4.0 – – 7....................................................... 18.93 6.5 18.61 6.8 – – 8....................................................... 19.66 11.1 19.66 11.1 – – Secretaries................................................. 15.23 3.6 14.27 4.1 17.37 5.2 3....................................................... 12.45 9.2 11.44 4.7 – – 4....................................................... 13.87 2.6 13.11 3.7 15.30 1.7 5....................................................... 17.90 4.9 15.98 5.5 – – 6....................................................... 18.21 4.9 17.91 5.8 – – 7....................................................... 21.11 1.1 20.91 1.4 – – Stenographers............................................... 14.58 4.0 – – – – Receptionists............................................... 10.58 6.1 10.58 6.1 – – 2....................................................... 10.46 6.1 10.46 6.1 – – Order clerks................................................ 16.74 12.7 16.74 12.7 – – 4....................................................... 20.25 7.9 20.25 7.9 – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 12.19 3.8 12.19 3.8 – – 4....................................................... 11.64 2.8 11.64 2.8 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 13.42 6.3 13.28 6.9 – – 4....................................................... 13.33 4.2 13.33 4.2 – – Billing clerks.............................................. 12.80 1.9 12.80 1.9 – – 4....................................................... 12.75 2.1 12.75 2.1 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.94 9.1 10.94 9.1 – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 11.80 6.8 11.36 6.6 – – Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 15.04 17.9 15.04 17.9 – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 13.75 7.5 13.75 7.5 – – 4....................................................... 14.06 11.3 14.06 11.3 – – General office clerks....................................... 13.24 5.9 12.91 7.9 – – 4....................................................... 13.96 7.6 – – – – Teachers' aides............................................. 11.36 6.8 – – – – Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 13.69 9.3 13.69 9.3 – – Blue collar......................................................... 16.17 2.4 15.84 2.6 18.70 3.1 1....................................................... $10.23 5.3 $9.89 5.4 – – 2....................................................... 14.53 7.0 14.10 7.9 – – 3....................................................... 13.46 3.4 13.25 3.1 – – 4....................................................... 14.50 7.6 14.46 7.8 – – 5....................................................... 16.69 3.6 16.50 3.9 – – 6....................................................... 18.97 2.9 17.96 4.9 – – 7....................................................... 20.92 2.4 21.25 2.8 $19.20 2.3 9....................................................... 26.38 6.0 26.38 6.0 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.37 3.2 18.43 3.5 17.71 3.3 3....................................................... 12.13 1.8 12.13 1.8 – – 4....................................................... 14.28 13.0 14.28 14.6 – – 5....................................................... 16.46 3.5 16.46 3.5 – – 6....................................................... 18.29 5.9 18.02 6.8 – – 7....................................................... 21.28 2.9 21.90 3.4 18.01 1.2 9....................................................... 26.38 6.0 26.38 6.0 – – Automobile mechanics........................................ 17.71 1.1 17.73 1.4 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 21.00 4.0 21.00 4.0 – – 7....................................................... 22.03 2.9 22.03 2.9 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 14.98 14.5 14.98 14.5 – – Carpenters.................................................. 20.21 9.3 – – – – Electricians................................................ 17.54 6.0 – – – – Machinists.................................................. 16.14 4.7 16.14 4.7 – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 12.47 2.0 12.47 2.0 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.63 6.1 13.63 6.1 – – 2....................................................... 11.81 8.1 11.81 8.1 – – 3....................................................... 12.04 3.5 12.04 3.5 – – 4....................................................... 12.14 11.8 12.14 11.8 – – 5....................................................... 16.23 9.1 16.23 9.1 – – 7....................................................... 18.24 7.0 18.24 7.0 – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 14.93 11.3 14.93 11.3 – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 13.56 15.7 13.56 15.7 – – Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 17.38 9.0 17.38 9.0 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 13.27 4.1 13.27 4.1 – – Welders and cutters......................................... 17.08 11.3 17.08 11.3 – – Assemblers.................................................. 11.39 .0 11.39 .0 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.86 2.9 15.96 3.8 19.42 1.4 3....................................................... 13.89 4.5 13.79 4.9 – – 4....................................................... 16.39 3.4 16.29 3.5 – – 5....................................................... 17.07 6.4 16.91 7.9 – – Truck drivers............................................... 15.58 6.2 15.46 6.9 – – 3....................................................... 14.74 6.7 – – – – 4....................................................... 16.61 4.4 16.47 4.5 – – 5....................................................... 16.76 10.0 16.61 10.5 – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ $14.82 3.7 $14.82 3.7 – – 4....................................................... 15.35 3.6 15.35 3.6 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 14.46 6.3 13.89 7.0 $18.34 8.4 1....................................................... 10.59 6.8 10.19 6.7 – – 2....................................................... 15.77 7.7 16.02 8.3 – – 3....................................................... 16.55 5.6 16.03 5.8 – – 4....................................................... 16.57 7.2 16.57 7.2 – – 5....................................................... 18.73 11.3 – – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 13.23 10.3 13.23 10.3 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 11.52 3.1 11.52 3.1 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 15.34 6.2 14.36 4.1 – – 1....................................................... 13.41 6.1 12.55 8.4 – – Service............................................................. 13.00 3.8 10.91 3.3 19.30 5.7 1....................................................... 8.79 9.5 8.42 10.1 – – 2....................................................... 9.63 5.7 9.27 5.8 – – 3....................................................... 10.58 2.3 9.65 1.2 13.97 3.1 4....................................................... 11.45 6.0 10.80 5.8 – – 5....................................................... 22.53 5.9 22.61 6.1 – – 6....................................................... 17.21 7.1 14.22 6.8 – – 7....................................................... 23.29 5.4 – – – – Protective service............................................ 18.55 7.4 9.71 7.3 25.04 3.6 7....................................................... 24.79 2.5 – – – – Police and detectives, public service....................... 26.10 2.1 – – 26.10 2.1 Guards and police, except public service.................... 9.57 4.9 9.57 4.9 – – Food service.................................................. 8.69 11.5 8.32 12.8 – – 1....................................................... 7.07 12.0 6.29 7.6 – – 2....................................................... 6.67 22.1 6.67 22.1 – – 3....................................................... 9.32 4.8 8.81 5.4 – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 4.90 22.6 4.90 22.6 – – 1....................................................... 4.89 21.6 4.89 21.6 – – Other food service........................................... 10.42 3.9 10.17 4.9 – – 1....................................................... 9.82 8.7 8.81 4.9 – – 2....................................................... 9.29 3.3 9.29 3.3 – – 3....................................................... 9.74 4.0 9.22 2.9 – – Cooks....................................................... 10.48 4.3 10.48 4.3 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 10.32 5.0 9.50 5.1 – – 1....................................................... 9.82 8.7 8.81 4.9 – – 3....................................................... 10.52 2.6 – – – – Health service................................................ 10.42 3.3 10.13 3.0 – – 2....................................................... 10.18 7.0 10.00 7.5 – – 3....................................................... 10.52 4.3 9.97 3.1 – – 4....................................................... 10.36 3.1 10.36 3.1 – – Health aides, except nursing................................ 10.18 6.0 10.15 5.9 – – 4....................................................... 11.15 6.1 11.15 6.1 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... $10.58 3.7 $10.16 3.2 – – 2....................................................... 10.28 6.4 10.09 6.9 – – 3....................................................... 11.02 4.5 10.18 1.6 – – 4....................................................... 10.06 2.2 10.06 2.2 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 13.02 5.4 12.25 9.1 $14.52 1.3 1....................................................... 9.94 11.7 9.67 12.6 – – 2....................................................... 10.93 5.9 9.85 2.1 – – 3....................................................... 13.56 1.7 11.50 5.8 14.15 2.6 4....................................................... 15.00 5.0 14.29 4.8 – – Maids and housemen.......................................... 9.19 9.9 9.04 10.1 – – 2....................................................... 10.12 2.8 – – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 13.49 3.9 12.85 7.4 14.46 1.0 1....................................................... 10.61 11.7 10.32 13.2 – – 3....................................................... 13.70 1.8 11.66 7.8 14.15 2.6 4....................................................... 15.00 5.0 14.29 4.8 – – Personal service.............................................. 15.66 13.1 16.02 16.2 – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-3. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) part-time workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2003 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $9.88 4.3 $9.53 4.4 $15.50 17.6 All excluding sales............................................... 10.63 5.0 10.23 5.1 15.74 20.2 White collar........................................................ 12.65 5.4 12.20 5.5 17.88 16.6 1....................................................... 6.96 6.4 6.96 6.4 – – 2....................................................... 7.60 2.1 7.59 2.1 – – 3....................................................... 8.08 6.6 7.88 6.7 – – 4....................................................... 11.16 10.1 11.21 10.6 – – 5....................................................... 14.22 10.0 15.13 9.2 – – 7....................................................... 18.35 5.1 20.64 6.2 12.29 12.6 8....................................................... 24.21 3.3 24.97 2.6 – – 9....................................................... 28.58 5.5 28.03 7.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.90 28.0 19.90 28.0 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 17.07 6.6 16.86 6.9 18.51 20.2 1....................................................... 8.36 7.6 8.38 7.7 – – 2....................................................... 8.68 3.6 8.71 3.8 – – 3....................................................... 9.29 5.7 9.09 5.5 – – 4....................................................... 11.80 11.8 11.93 12.5 – – 5....................................................... 14.59 10.8 15.67 10.3 – – 7....................................................... 18.35 5.1 20.64 6.2 12.29 12.6 8....................................................... 24.21 3.3 24.97 2.6 – – 9....................................................... 28.58 5.5 28.03 7.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.42 31.3 21.42 31.3 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 22.35 5.4 22.73 5.2 20.68 19.5 Professional specialty.......................................... 22.95 5.5 23.54 5.4 20.68 19.5 5....................................................... 12.38 8.7 – – – – 7....................................................... 18.03 6.0 20.80 7.6 12.29 12.6 8....................................................... 24.21 3.3 24.97 2.6 – – 9....................................................... 28.80 5.5 28.30 7.0 – – Health related................................................ 25.90 4.5 26.07 4.5 – – 7....................................................... 21.36 7.2 21.36 7.2 – – 8....................................................... 24.33 2.9 24.76 2.4 – – 9....................................................... 28.29 7.0 28.29 7.0 – – Registered nurses........................................... 24.02 3.4 24.18 3.4 – – 7....................................................... 20.82 5.6 20.82 5.6 – – 8....................................................... 23.78 2.0 24.21 1.0 – – 9....................................................... 25.36 2.8 25.36 2.8 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 19.53 21.4 13.41 13.0 20.50 23.1 7....................................................... 11.92 13.1 – – 12.24 13.0 Substitute teachers......................................... 10.93 6.2 – – 11.04 6.3 7....................................................... 11.16 10.8 – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 9.72 17.8 9.72 17.8 – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... $16.08 5.8 $16.08 5.8 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... – – – – – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... – – – – – – Management related............................................ – – – – – – Sales............................................................. 7.18 2.1 7.12 1.9 – – 1....................................................... 6.62 7.5 6.62 7.5 – – 2....................................................... 7.03 2.0 7.03 2.0 – – 3....................................................... 7.39 8.9 7.21 9.1 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 7.45 1.9 7.45 1.9 – – Cashiers.................................................... 6.79 2.8 6.68 2.6 – – 1....................................................... 6.23 5.6 6.23 5.6 – – 2....................................................... 6.98 2.9 6.98 2.9 – – 3....................................................... 7.19 11.4 6.94 11.7 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 9.72 5.1 9.67 5.5 $10.57 8.6 1....................................................... 8.36 7.6 8.38 7.7 – – 2....................................................... 8.68 3.6 8.71 3.8 – – 3....................................................... 9.27 5.8 9.06 5.5 – – 4....................................................... 12.99 9.9 13.44 9.2 – – Secretaries................................................. 10.12 9.0 10.12 9.0 – – General office clerks....................................... 9.05 8.2 – – – – Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 10.34 9.4 – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 8.32 5.0 8.09 4.4 – – 1....................................................... 6.81 4.6 6.50 .9 – – 2....................................................... 9.06 12.6 8.73 13.5 – – 3....................................................... 11.04 6.4 11.04 6.4 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... – – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 11.28 11.7 10.65 14.9 – – Bus drivers................................................. 13.31 6.3 – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 7.29 7.5 7.29 7.5 – – 1....................................................... 6.42 1.5 6.42 1.5 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 6.45 3.5 6.45 3.5 – – 1....................................................... 6.37 3.4 6.37 3.4 – – Service............................................................. 6.98 3.4 6.82 3.2 10.34 3.8 1....................................................... 5.87 7.8 5.57 7.1 – – 2....................................................... $7.58 3.7 $7.47 3.6 – – 3....................................................... 7.41 4.0 7.29 3.9 – – 4....................................................... 8.53 12.2 8.51 12.6 – – Protective service............................................ – – – – – – Food service.................................................. 5.87 2.5 5.75 2.1 – – 1....................................................... 5.07 8.5 4.99 8.4 – – 2....................................................... 7.24 6.9 7.03 7.5 – – 3....................................................... 5.35 9.4 5.35 9.4 – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 4.02 6.2 4.02 6.2 – – 1....................................................... 3.87 6.6 3.87 6.6 – – 3....................................................... 4.06 9.1 4.06 9.1 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.04 3.0 3.04 3.0 – – 1....................................................... 3.01 4.0 3.01 4.0 – – Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants............................. 6.03 4.7 6.03 4.7 – – 1....................................................... 6.00 5.0 6.00 5.0 – – Other food service........................................... 7.65 2.4 7.51 2.4 – – 1....................................................... 6.71 2.5 6.59 2.0 – – 2....................................................... 8.32 3.3 – – – – 3....................................................... 7.54 6.2 7.54 6.2 – – Cooks....................................................... 8.52 3.6 8.49 3.8 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 7.57 2.8 7.31 4.1 – – 1....................................................... 6.82 2.9 6.63 2.1 – – Health service................................................ 9.85 3.8 9.85 3.8 – – 2....................................................... 9.80 7.3 9.80 7.3 – – 3....................................................... 9.75 4.3 9.75 4.3 – – 4....................................................... 10.12 2.9 10.12 2.9 – – Health aides, except nursing................................ 9.38 7.3 9.38 7.3 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 9.95 3.9 9.95 3.9 – – 3....................................................... 9.61 5.0 9.61 5.0 – – 4....................................................... 10.08 3.1 10.08 3.1 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 7.88 4.3 7.60 2.9 – – 1....................................................... 7.72 8.5 7.49 8.0 – – Maids and housemen.......................................... 7.55 6.4 – – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.93 5.1 7.58 3.4 – – 1....................................................... 7.86 10.8 – – – – Personal service.............................................. 7.79 8.2 7.71 8.9 – – 1....................................................... 6.61 5.1 6.61 5.1 – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 5-1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2003 Private industry and State and local government Occupational group Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) 3) 3) Mean All occupations....................................................... $18.86 $9.88 $19.85 $16.85 $17.83 $16.15 All excluding sales............................................. 19.23 10.63 20.06 17.53 18.41 16.38 White collar........................................................ 22.01 12.65 27.00 19.80 21.16 15.11 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 23.06 17.07 28.23 21.40 22.73 – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 28.58 22.35 34.00 25.74 28.06 – Professional specialty.......................................... 30.23 22.95 33.94 27.59 29.54 – Technical....................................................... 21.70 16.08 34.59 19.05 21.47 – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.15 – – 28.26 28.27 – Sales............................................................. 12.20 7.18 8.74 10.58 9.83 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.62 9.72 15.87 12.86 13.28 – Blue collar......................................................... 16.17 8.32 17.11 13.54 15.61 16.96 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.37 – 19.56 16.67 18.45 17.31 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.63 – 14.27 12.53 13.40 – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.86 11.28 17.86 13.65 16.62 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 14.46 7.29 15.63 9.25 13.13 – Service............................................................. 13.00 6.98 16.18 9.25 11.62 – B Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- Occupational group workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) 3) 3) Relative error(6) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 2.6 4.3 4.4 3.0 2.4 5.9 All excluding sales............................................. 2.7 5.0 4.3 2.9 2.5 2.4 White collar........................................................ 3.3 5.4 5.5 3.6 3.1 14.4 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 3.5 6.6 5.4 3.6 3.3 – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 3.0 5.4 4.7 3.8 2.9 – Professional specialty.......................................... 2.7 5.5 1.2 4.0 2.6 – Technical....................................................... 11.8 5.8 46.6 4.4 11.4 – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 4.7 – – 4.9 4.8 – Sales............................................................. 6.4 2.1 20.3 5.4 4.2 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 2.6 5.1 7.3 2.6 2.7 – Blue collar......................................................... 2.4 5.0 3.6 3.6 2.4 3.2 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 3.2 – 4.6 3.8 3.3 .7 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 6.1 – 6.6 8.7 6.0 – Transportation and material moving................................ 2.9 11.7 3.2 6.1 2.8 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.3 7.5 5.3 8.8 6.0 – Service............................................................. 3.8 3.4 5.7 3.6 3.5 – 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. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 5 Time workers' wages are based solely on an hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 6 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 5-2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2003 Full-time and part-time workers Goods-producing indust- Service-producing industries(4) ries(3) Occupational group All pri- vate indus- Trans- Wholesale Finance, tries Con- Manu- portation and insur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and pub- retail ance, and ices tion turing lic trade real utilities estate Mean All occupations....................................................... $16.76 $18.34 - - $17.85 $16.31 $22.41 - - $17.07 All excluding sales............................................. 17.36 18.26 - - 17.75 17.07 22.53 - - 17.22 White collar........................................................ 19.87 23.45 - - 22.97 19.29 26.11 - - 21.11 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 21.59 23.39 - - 22.88 21.25 26.61 - - 21.52 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.38 29.03 - - 27.51 25.98 – - - 24.79 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.70 33.49 - - 31.60 26.96 – - - 26.43 Technical....................................................... 21.61 19.45 - - 19.45 22.11 – - - 18.47 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.01 28.42 - - 28.83 27.89 30.58 - - 25.54 Sales............................................................. 10.33 – - - – 9.84 – - - 11.54 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.02 14.70 - - 14.67 12.71 17.55 - - 12.19 Blue collar......................................................... 15.33 15.71 - - 14.97 14.86 18.38 - - 15.33 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.34 18.68 - - 17.11 18.05 24.45 - - 18.13 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.54 13.86 - - 13.86 10.89 – - - 9.72 Transportation and material moving................................ 15.54 15.83 - - 15.39 15.38 15.11 - - – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.57 14.95 - - 14.53 10.69 15.58 - - 10.25 Service............................................................. 9.78 15.31 - - 15.31 9.64 – - - 9.79 B Goods-producing indust- Service-producing industries(4) ries(3) All pri- vate Occupational group indus- Trans- Wholesale Finance, tries Con- Manu- portation and insur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and pub- retail ance, and ices tion turing lic trade real utilities estate Relative error(5) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 2.8 6.9 - - 7.5 3.0 14.0 - - 3.7 All excluding sales............................................. 2.9 6.6 - - 7.2 3.2 13.7 - - 3.8 White collar........................................................ 3.8 10.5 - - 10.9 4.1 23.5 - - 3.9 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 4.1 11.0 - - 11.5 4.4 23.1 - - 4.4 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 4.1 14.5 - - 14.9 4.1 – - - 4.1 Professional specialty.......................................... 3.9 8.5 - - 8.0 3.9 – - - 4.4 Technical....................................................... 12.3 2.5 - - 2.5 14.6 – - - 6.0 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 5.1 4.1 - - 2.6 6.5 3.5 - - 10.9 Sales............................................................. 4.9 – - - – 3.3 – - - 24.2 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 3.1 3.3 - - 3.4 3.6 9.3 - - 4.8 Blue collar......................................................... 2.5 3.6 - - 3.6 3.6 5.2 - - 5.5 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 3.3 4.9 - - 6.5 4.2 .6 - - 5.1 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 6.1 6.7 - - 6.7 14.2 – - - 12.4 Transportation and material moving................................ 3.9 4.3 - - 8.0 5.7 7.8 - - – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.4 7.0 - - 7.7 11.1 11.5 - - 4.2 Service............................................................. 3.1 3.5 - - 3.5 3.0 – - - 2.1 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 4 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 5-3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2003 Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All 50 - 99 private workers(- industry 3) 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Mean All occupations....................................................... $16.76 $15.04 $17.24 $15.73 $19.00 All excluding sales............................................. 17.36 15.38 17.90 16.21 19.84 White collar........................................................ 19.87 18.63 20.10 19.72 20.39 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 21.59 20.66 21.75 21.73 21.77 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.38 27.98 26.20 29.05 24.35 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.70 32.03 27.31 30.79 24.93 Technical....................................................... 21.61 20.59 21.81 20.91 22.27 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.01 25.49 28.68 25.26 30.91 Sales............................................................. 10.33 11.68 9.92 10.51 9.17 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.02 12.26 13.16 12.95 13.34 Blue collar......................................................... 15.33 14.85 15.58 14.44 18.36 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.34 18.13 18.54 16.51 21.38 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.54 12.08 14.12 14.03 14.38 Transportation and material moving................................ 15.54 14.25 16.02 15.33 19.27 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.57 10.45 13.47 12.14 16.90 Service............................................................. 9.78 7.17 10.43 9.27 12.65 B Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All 50 - 99 private workers(- industry 3) 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Relative error(4) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 2.8 5.6 2.9 4.7 3.4 All excluding sales............................................. 2.9 5.9 3.1 4.9 3.3 White collar........................................................ 3.8 9.9 3.5 6.6 3.8 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 4.1 9.7 4.0 7.0 3.8 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 4.1 10.2 4.4 8.3 4.6 Professional specialty.......................................... 3.9 17.8 4.3 9.1 2.7 Technical....................................................... 12.3 16.8 14.5 5.2 21.1 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 5.1 8.1 5.6 11.0 3.7 Sales............................................................. 4.9 4.3 6.7 10.6 7.7 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 3.1 5.4 3.3 4.9 3.4 Blue collar......................................................... 2.5 5.4 2.2 3.4 3.0 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 3.3 3.8 4.4 6.3 2.2 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 6.1 14.9 4.1 2.7 13.0 Transportation and material moving................................ 3.9 8.9 3.2 4.0 3.7 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.4 12.1 5.5 9.0 2.8 Service............................................................. 3.1 11.7 2.4 3.0 5.0 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2003 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $7.66 $10.33 $14.94 $21.81 $31.06 All excluding sales........................... 8.25 10.91 15.50 22.46 32.00 White collar.................................... 8.60 11.77 17.67 26.22 36.92 White collar excluding sales................ 10.29 13.41 19.08 27.50 38.71 Professional specialty and technical.......... 14.34 18.89 24.81 34.68 46.41 Professional specialty...................... 15.63 21.10 26.49 36.06 47.74 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 24.35 28.82 37.05 43.76 51.38 Electrical and electronic engineers..... 26.92 32.50 37.50 48.13 62.02 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 18.63 21.22 30.05 35.57 39.25 Computer systems analysts and scientists 18.63 21.51 30.39 35.57 39.40 Natural scientists........................ 15.39 17.09 23.70 34.74 36.90 Health related............................ 18.24 21.14 24.13 28.08 37.49 Registered nurses....................... 18.90 21.21 23.48 25.90 28.73 Pharmacists............................. 33.21 34.50 36.23 39.55 39.55 Physical therapists..................... 21.66 26.53 30.46 31.56 34.11 Therapists, n.e.c....................... 11.38 11.58 12.41 17.52 25.50 Teachers, college and university.......... 16.92 19.88 28.21 35.73 46.96 Other post-secondary teachers........... 15.64 18.25 21.54 33.33 49.31 Teachers, except college and university... 14.75 24.62 32.36 47.42 50.35 Elementary school teachers.............. 24.63 27.64 36.03 49.54 53.48 Secondary school teachers............... 23.76 26.91 32.70 46.41 50.69 Teachers, special education............. 19.90 25.13 47.42 48.08 48.74 Teachers, n.e.c......................... 12.36 17.00 31.05 48.03 48.61 Substitute teachers..................... 9.79 10.00 10.67 15.63 16.25 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... 13.46 15.91 27.37 27.37 33.65 Social scientists and urban planners...... 17.74 20.02 26.24 32.69 36.39 Psychologists........................... 15.33 17.10 22.50 25.74 26.03 Social, recreation, and religious workers. 6.96 9.50 11.60 18.63 24.42 Social workers.......................... 7.00 9.50 16.66 21.86 25.50 Lawyers and judges........................ – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 12.86 15.26 20.93 30.07 86.75 Editors and reporters................... 15.11 16.44 20.93 30.45 43.02 Technical................................... 12.10 14.95 18.85 22.00 28.61 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians.......................... 10.70 12.04 16.58 20.72 23.95 Health record technologists and technicians.......................... 13.31 14.00 15.61 21.49 22.92 Radiological technicians................ 15.25 17.40 20.00 20.73 22.07 Licensed practical nurses............... 13.50 14.71 15.97 17.82 18.89 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................................ 10.60 10.60 12.17 13.84 15.31 Engineering technicians, n.e.c.......... 19.59 19.59 25.50 27.36 33.53 Drafters................................ 14.82 16.15 23.18 29.07 31.83 Computer programmers.................... 18.99 18.99 28.61 34.25 37.86 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 16.05 18.20 23.56 33.59 43.07 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 17.88 22.56 31.06 38.00 53.79 Financial managers...................... 17.88 23.08 35.90 41.03 51.28 Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations..................... $23.08 $32.47 $35.36 $49.99 $54.33 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 16.57 21.13 24.77 35.59 41.48 Managers, medicine and health........... 18.00 18.00 25.04 32.98 36.06 Managers, service organizations, n.e.c.. 14.61 18.13 22.56 34.56 58.15 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 22.16 28.62 31.50 43.65 53.79 Management related........................ 15.64 17.44 20.00 24.04 29.42 Accountants and auditors................ 15.80 16.05 19.43 23.56 28.54 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists.......................... 15.06 19.46 23.56 27.18 39.80 Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c..... 16.09 17.75 21.20 25.12 27.72 Management related, n.e.c............... 15.00 18.00 22.05 27.69 32.26 Sales......................................... 6.00 6.76 8.82 11.46 16.53 Sales workers, other commodities........ 6.46 6.93 7.85 10.03 16.25 Cashiers................................ 5.50 5.95 7.05 8.85 10.78 Sales support, n.e.c.................... 6.00 6.27 7.15 10.00 13.85 Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.52 10.30 12.59 15.24 19.59 Secretaries............................. 9.97 12.10 14.69 17.64 21.07 Stenographers........................... 11.77 13.22 14.68 15.90 17.14 Receptionists........................... 8.00 8.85 9.56 11.64 12.98 Information clerks, n.e.c............... 8.00 9.00 13.31 14.54 15.71 Order clerks............................ 9.50 11.33 15.38 20.98 24.98 Records clerks, n.e.c................... 8.80 10.13 11.50 13.49 15.85 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 10.20 11.80 13.48 14.73 16.17 Billing clerks.......................... 10.99 11.90 12.87 13.60 14.72 Telephone operators..................... 8.75 10.00 12.45 19.02 19.02 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 9.00 9.05 10.60 11.90 14.90 Stock and inventory clerks.............. 9.34 10.30 12.00 13.39 14.97 Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........................ 9.00 10.71 11.61 17.76 23.26 Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............................ 9.51 10.51 13.54 16.62 19.10 General office clerks................... 8.00 11.35 12.20 14.09 19.59 Bank tellers............................ 8.05 8.50 9.87 12.16 14.45 Teachers' aides......................... 7.21 8.61 11.03 13.55 14.29 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 7.50 10.01 12.91 14.46 19.73 Blue collar..................................... 9.25 11.50 15.20 19.66 22.99 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 11.30 14.25 17.95 21.88 26.17 Automobile mechanics.................... 14.50 15.91 17.50 19.00 21.25 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 14.60 19.52 21.47 22.65 26.80 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 9.75 11.30 14.29 19.30 19.68 Carpenters.............................. 17.83 18.12 18.19 23.72 25.22 Electricians............................ 14.61 14.61 18.60 19.29 20.59 Machinists.............................. 13.25 14.35 15.75 17.95 19.29 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers........................... $10.95 $11.13 $11.55 $13.76 $15.37 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 9.25 10.10 13.07 15.97 19.62 Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators.......... 9.62 11.70 14.81 18.05 20.43 Molding and casting machine operators... 9.82 9.82 13.07 15.97 18.23 Mixing and blending machine operators... 11.22 13.85 19.62 19.62 20.64 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 11.15 11.58 13.75 15.60 15.97 Welders and cutters..................... 12.60 13.40 16.04 21.67 22.28 Assemblers.............................. 8.60 9.60 10.12 12.33 16.51 Transportation and material moving............ 10.90 13.85 16.00 19.78 21.02 Truck drivers........................... 10.63 13.50 14.88 16.67 20.70 Bus drivers............................. 10.00 13.66 21.02 21.02 21.02 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 11.75 13.49 14.27 16.41 16.69 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 6.50 9.00 12.25 16.80 20.19 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.50 5.90 6.50 9.66 15.14 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 10.99 19.64 19.64 20.16 20.25 Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners.. 6.50 7.00 8.00 10.50 17.13 Hand packers and packagers.............. 5.25 10.75 10.93 11.55 11.96 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 10.75 13.13 15.12 16.33 18.77 Service......................................... 5.75 8.00 10.00 13.04 22.71 Protective service........................ 7.00 8.80 17.47 24.58 27.48 Police and detectives, public service... 24.58 24.58 24.58 26.68 28.60 Guards and police, except public service 6.60 7.50 8.63 10.00 12.00 Food service.............................. 2.83 3.95 7.10 9.25 11.25 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.83 2.83 2.93 5.75 7.80 Bartenders.............................. 4.00 5.25 6.00 7.00 8.95 Waiters and waitresses.................. 2.83 2.83 2.83 2.83 3.20 Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants......... 3.80 4.50 5.75 7.80 8.35 Other food service....................... 6.00 7.25 8.75 10.60 12.30 Supervisors, food preparation and service.............................. 7.68 8.38 8.38 10.75 16.78 Cooks................................... 7.23 8.00 9.25 11.30 13.50 Kitchen workers, food preparation....... 5.50 6.40 8.00 9.25 10.69 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 5.75 6.95 8.90 10.60 11.72 Health service............................ 7.50 9.09 10.28 11.35 12.87 Health aides, except nursing............ 7.10 8.67 9.77 11.78 13.04 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 8.00 9.50 10.52 11.35 12.57 Cleaning and building service............. 7.00 8.29 12.12 15.68 16.87 Maids and housemen...................... 5.15 6.60 9.54 10.66 11.71 Janitors and cleaners................... 7.25 8.53 13.16 15.73 16.87 Personal service.......................... 7.19 9.58 10.00 17.16 32.88 Child care workers, n.e.c............... 6.00 9.31 13.39 13.97 15.44 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 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry, National Compensation Survey, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2003 Private industry Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $7.34 $9.80 $13.91 $20.51 $28.62 All excluding sales........................... 8.00 10.30 14.50 21.01 29.47 White collar.................................... 8.20 11.19 16.44 24.39 35.25 White collar excluding sales................ 9.84 12.77 18.30 26.07 36.21 Professional specialty and technical.......... 13.43 18.04 23.38 31.64 40.20 Professional specialty...................... 14.42 19.78 24.81 33.65 42.14 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 24.35 28.82 37.05 43.76 51.38 Electrical and electronic engineers..... 26.92 32.50 37.50 48.13 62.02 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 18.63 21.22 30.05 35.57 39.25 Computer systems analysts and scientists 18.63 21.51 30.39 35.57 39.40 Natural scientists........................ 15.39 17.09 23.70 34.74 36.90 Health related............................ 18.21 21.23 24.16 28.16 37.99 Registered nurses....................... 19.23 21.37 23.48 25.86 28.54 Pharmacists............................. 33.21 34.50 36.23 39.55 39.55 Physical therapists..................... 21.66 26.53 30.46 31.56 34.11 Therapists, n.e.c....................... 11.38 11.58 12.41 17.52 24.89 Teachers, college and university.......... 15.90 18.52 23.00 33.37 36.30 Teachers, except college and university... 11.26 12.50 14.53 19.34 27.87 Teachers, special education............. 13.93 15.56 18.95 21.02 40.43 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... 13.46 15.91 27.37 27.37 33.65 Social scientists and urban planners...... 18.12 19.83 26.24 36.06 36.39 Social, recreation, and religious workers. 6.96 9.23 10.65 11.60 17.10 Lawyers and judges........................ - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 12.86 15.26 20.93 30.07 86.75 Editors and reporters................... 15.11 16.44 20.93 30.45 43.02 Technical................................... 12.02 14.79 18.75 21.68 29.12 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians.......................... 10.70 12.04 16.58 20.72 23.95 Health record technologists and technicians.......................... 13.31 14.00 15.61 21.49 22.92 Radiological technicians................ 15.25 17.40 20.00 20.73 22.07 Licensed practical nurses............... 13.31 14.68 16.00 17.82 18.89 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................................ 10.60 10.60 12.17 13.84 15.31 Drafters................................ 14.82 16.15 23.18 29.07 31.83 Computer programmers.................... 18.99 18.99 28.61 34.25 37.86 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 16.00 18.13 23.18 32.82 43.07 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 18.00 22.34 31.06 37.56 54.33 Financial managers...................... 17.88 23.08 35.90 41.03 51.28 Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations..................... 23.08 32.47 35.36 49.99 54.33 Managers, medicine and health........... 18.00 18.00 25.04 32.98 36.06 Managers, service organizations, n.e.c.. 14.61 18.13 22.56 34.56 58.15 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 22.16 27.47 31.50 43.65 57.12 Management related........................ $15.06 $17.03 $19.70 $24.10 $29.96 Accountants and auditors................ 12.74 16.05 18.73 22.91 29.42 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists.......................... 15.06 19.46 23.56 27.18 39.80 Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c..... 16.09 17.75 21.20 25.12 27.72 Management related, n.e.c............... 15.00 18.00 22.05 27.69 32.26 Sales......................................... 6.00 6.76 8.70 11.15 15.63 Sales workers, other commodities........ 6.46 6.93 7.85 10.03 16.25 Cashiers................................ 5.50 5.85 7.00 8.40 10.00 Sales support, n.e.c.................... 6.00 6.27 7.15 10.00 13.85 Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.45 9.98 12.19 14.95 19.89 Secretaries............................. 9.37 11.39 13.52 16.04 20.49 Stenographers........................... 11.23 12.13 13.16 14.39 15.69 Receptionists........................... 8.00 8.85 9.56 11.64 12.98 Information clerks, n.e.c............... 8.00 9.00 13.31 14.54 15.71 Order clerks............................ 9.50 11.33 15.38 20.98 24.98 Records clerks, n.e.c................... 8.80 10.13 11.50 13.49 15.85 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 10.04 11.80 13.21 14.74 16.17 Billing clerks.......................... 10.99 11.90 12.87 13.60 14.72 Telephone operators..................... 8.75 10.00 12.45 19.02 19.02 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 9.00 9.05 10.60 11.90 14.90 Stock and inventory clerks.............. 7.20 10.30 11.45 12.10 13.39 Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........................ 9.00 10.71 11.61 17.76 23.26 Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............................ 9.51 10.51 13.54 16.62 19.10 General office clerks................... 8.00 10.19 11.67 14.10 17.70 Bank tellers............................ 8.05 8.50 9.87 12.16 14.45 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 7.50 10.00 13.03 14.68 20.45 Blue collar..................................... 8.57 11.24 14.56 19.62 23.21 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 11.25 13.98 17.70 22.65 26.93 Automobile mechanics.................... 14.50 16.00 17.50 19.00 21.25 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 14.60 19.52 21.47 22.65 26.80 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 9.75 11.30 14.29 19.30 19.68 Machinists.............................. 13.25 14.35 15.75 17.95 19.29 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers........................... 10.95 11.13 11.55 13.76 15.37 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 9.25 10.10 13.07 15.97 19.62 Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators.......... 9.62 11.70 14.81 18.05 20.43 Molding and casting machine operators... 9.82 9.82 13.07 15.97 18.23 Mixing and blending machine operators... 11.22 13.85 19.62 19.62 20.64 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. $11.15 $11.58 $13.75 $15.60 $15.97 Welders and cutters..................... 12.60 13.40 16.04 21.67 22.28 Assemblers.............................. 8.60 9.60 10.12 12.33 16.51 Transportation and material moving............ 10.00 13.25 15.03 19.66 20.70 Truck drivers........................... 10.35 13.33 14.70 16.67 20.70 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 11.75 13.49 14.27 16.41 16.69 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 6.50 8.25 11.55 16.33 19.80 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.50 5.90 6.50 9.66 15.14 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 10.99 19.64 19.64 20.16 20.25 Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners.. 6.50 7.00 8.00 10.50 17.13 Hand packers and packagers.............. 5.25 10.75 10.93 11.55 11.96 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 10.48 11.23 13.25 16.33 16.59 Service......................................... 5.25 7.25 9.27 11.00 13.81 Protective service........................ 6.25 7.25 8.55 10.00 13.55 Guards and police, except public service 6.60 7.50 8.63 10.00 12.00 Food service.............................. 2.83 3.61 6.70 8.94 10.69 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.83 2.83 2.93 5.75 7.80 Bartenders.............................. 4.00 5.25 6.00 7.00 8.95 Waiters and waitresses.................. 2.83 2.83 2.83 2.83 3.20 Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants......... 3.80 4.50 5.75 7.80 8.35 Other food service....................... 5.95 7.00 8.40 10.05 11.50 Supervisors, food preparation and service.............................. 7.68 8.38 8.38 10.75 16.78 Cooks................................... 7.25 8.00 9.25 11.25 13.50 Kitchen workers, food preparation....... 5.50 6.40 8.00 9.25 10.69 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 5.55 6.50 8.15 9.54 10.50 Health service............................ 7.48 9.02 10.10 11.07 12.23 Health aides, except nursing............ 7.00 8.66 9.77 11.70 13.04 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 7.65 9.35 10.30 11.03 11.81 Cleaning and building service............. $6.50 $7.75 $10.28 $14.82 $16.90 Maids and housemen...................... 5.15 6.50 9.52 10.57 11.29 Janitors and cleaners................... 7.00 7.75 10.93 15.69 16.90 Personal service.......................... 7.05 8.65 10.00 19.56 32.88 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 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2003 State and local government Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $12.51 $15.29 $21.02 $27.48 $42.34 All excluding sales........................... 12.52 15.33 21.02 27.67 42.60 White collar.................................... 13.06 16.50 25.16 36.92 48.08 White collar excluding sales................ 13.15 16.52 25.50 37.26 48.08 Professional specialty and technical.......... 18.25 24.67 31.87 47.42 50.35 Professional specialty...................... 18.90 25.50 32.91 47.42 50.35 Health related............................ - - - - - Teachers, college and university.......... 20.40 24.34 34.80 48.10 59.94 Teachers, except college and university... 23.33 26.99 35.08 48.03 50.35 Elementary school teachers.............. 25.16 27.84 37.01 49.54 53.62 Secondary school teachers............... 24.29 27.19 33.02 46.60 50.69 Substitute teachers..................... 9.93 10.00 10.67 15.63 16.25 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Technical................................... - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 18.55 21.65 28.89 37.26 41.95 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 16.57 28.89 32.51 38.71 44.75 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 16.57 16.57 38.16 41.48 44.75 Management related........................ - - - - - Sales......................................... - - - - - Administrative support, including clerical.... 12.00 12.87 14.96 17.14 19.56 Secretaries............................. 13.26 15.23 16.52 19.06 21.47 Blue collar..................................... 14.88 15.69 18.57 21.02 22.99 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 15.14 15.69 18.19 18.57 21.04 Transportation and material moving............ 14.53 16.53 20.39 21.02 22.34 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 10.34 15.12 18.83 22.03 22.99 Service......................................... 11.47 13.14 16.81 24.58 27.29 Protective service........................ 22.24 22.71 24.58 26.68 28.58 Police and detectives, public service... 24.58 24.58 24.58 26.68 28.60 Food service.............................. 10.33 10.97 11.52 12.01 12.52 Other food service....................... 10.33 10.97 11.52 12.01 12.52 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 10.60 10.97 11.52 12.30 12.69 Health service............................ - - - - - Cleaning and building service............. 11.03 13.62 14.71 15.73 16.66 Janitors and cleaners................... $11.64 $13.62 $14.71 $15.73 $16.66 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 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 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2003 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $9.00 $11.35 $15.89 $22.71 $32.51 All excluding sales........................... 9.32 11.60 16.14 22.97 32.88 White collar.................................... 9.70 12.68 18.25 26.99 37.76 White collar excluding sales................ 10.65 13.65 19.39 27.92 39.85 Professional specialty and technical.......... 14.50 18.95 25.13 35.20 47.42 Professional specialty...................... 16.08 21.28 26.99 36.54 48.03 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 24.35 28.82 37.05 43.76 51.38 Electrical and electronic engineers..... 26.92 32.50 37.50 48.13 62.02 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 18.63 21.22 30.05 35.57 39.25 Computer systems analysts and scientists 18.63 21.51 30.39 35.57 39.40 Natural scientists........................ 15.39 17.09 23.70 34.74 36.90 Health related............................ 17.83 20.96 23.95 27.91 38.57 Registered nurses....................... 18.95 21.14 23.35 25.55 28.18 Pharmacists............................. 32.78 34.25 36.04 37.96 40.03 Physical therapists..................... 21.66 26.53 30.77 31.56 34.11 Therapists, n.e.c....................... 11.38 11.58 12.41 17.52 25.50 Teachers, college and university.......... 16.92 19.59 28.50 35.90 46.96 Other post-secondary teachers........... 15.64 18.25 21.54 33.15 49.31 Teachers, except college and university... 16.25 25.50 33.73 47.46 50.35 Elementary school teachers.............. 24.63 27.64 36.03 49.54 53.48 Secondary school teachers............... 23.99 26.99 32.91 46.41 50.69 Teachers, special education............. 21.95 26.06 47.42 48.08 49.41 Teachers, n.e.c......................... 12.36 15.98 47.46 48.03 48.61 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... 13.46 15.91 27.37 27.37 33.65 Social scientists and urban planners...... 17.74 19.83 26.24 32.69 36.39 Social, recreation, and religious workers. 9.23 10.65 12.92 20.45 25.50 Social workers.......................... 9.43 10.65 17.14 22.85 25.50 Lawyers and judges........................ - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 12.86 16.44 20.93 30.07 86.75 Editors and reporters................... 15.11 16.44 20.93 30.45 43.02 Technical................................... 12.10 14.98 18.85 22.24 28.87 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians.......................... 10.84 12.04 16.58 20.90 23.95 Health record technologists and technicians.......................... 13.31 14.00 15.61 21.49 22.92 Radiological technicians................ 15.66 17.51 20.00 20.73 22.00 Licensed practical nurses............... 13.48 14.71 16.02 17.82 18.89 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................................ 10.60 10.60 12.17 13.84 15.30 Engineering technicians, n.e.c.......... 19.59 19.59 25.50 27.36 33.53 Drafters................................ 14.82 16.15 23.18 29.07 31.83 Computer programmers.................... 18.99 18.99 28.61 34.25 37.86 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 16.05 18.20 23.56 33.10 43.08 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 17.88 22.56 31.06 37.56 53.79 Financial managers...................... 17.88 23.08 35.90 41.03 51.28 Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations..................... 23.08 32.47 35.36 49.99 54.33 Administrators, education and related fields............................... $16.57 $21.13 $24.77 $35.59 $41.48 Managers, medicine and health........... 18.00 18.00 25.04 32.98 36.06 Managers, service organizations, n.e.c.. 14.61 18.13 22.56 34.56 58.15 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 22.16 28.62 31.50 44.57 53.79 Management related........................ 15.64 17.44 19.95 24.10 29.44 Accountants and auditors................ 15.80 16.05 19.43 23.56 28.54 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists.......................... 15.06 19.46 23.56 27.18 39.80 Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c..... 16.09 17.75 21.20 25.24 27.72 Management related, n.e.c............... 15.00 18.00 22.05 27.69 32.26 Sales......................................... 6.93 7.97 10.12 13.46 18.91 Cashiers................................ 6.77 7.51 8.75 10.20 13.87 Administrative support, including clerical.... 9.00 10.62 12.98 15.40 20.00 Secretaries............................. 10.00 12.35 14.69 18.10 21.18 Stenographers........................... 11.98 13.24 14.96 15.90 17.14 Receptionists........................... 8.50 9.25 9.80 12.40 12.98 Order clerks............................ 9.50 11.33 15.38 20.98 24.98 Records clerks, n.e.c................... 9.25 10.60 11.50 13.49 15.89 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 10.20 11.80 13.57 14.73 16.17 Billing clerks.......................... 10.99 11.90 12.87 13.60 14.72 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 9.00 9.05 10.60 11.90 14.90 Stock and inventory clerks.............. 9.34 10.30 12.00 13.39 14.97 Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........................ 9.00 10.71 11.61 17.76 23.26 Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............................ 9.51 10.48 13.54 16.62 19.10 General office clerks................... 8.00 11.52 12.20 14.10 19.59 Teachers' aides......................... 7.21 8.61 11.03 13.55 14.29 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 7.95 12.63 14.22 14.68 20.78 Blue collar..................................... 9.82 12.20 15.64 19.66 23.23 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 11.30 14.25 17.95 21.88 26.17 Automobile mechanics.................... 14.50 15.91 17.50 19.00 21.25 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 14.60 19.52 21.47 22.65 26.80 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 9.75 11.30 14.29 19.30 19.68 Carpenters.............................. 17.83 18.12 18.19 23.72 25.22 Electricians............................ 14.61 14.61 18.60 19.29 20.59 Machinists.............................. 13.25 14.35 15.75 17.95 19.29 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers........................... 10.95 11.13 11.55 13.76 15.37 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 9.34 10.10 13.16 15.97 19.62 Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators.......... 9.62 11.70 14.81 18.05 20.43 Molding and casting machine operators... 9.82 9.82 13.07 15.97 18.23 Mixing and blending machine operators... 11.22 13.85 19.62 19.62 20.64 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. $11.15 $11.58 $13.75 $15.60 $15.97 Welders and cutters..................... 12.60 13.40 16.04 21.67 22.28 Assemblers.............................. 8.60 9.60 10.12 12.33 16.51 Transportation and material moving............ 12.00 14.27 16.06 19.78 21.70 Truck drivers........................... 11.12 13.88 14.88 16.67 20.70 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 11.75 13.49 14.27 16.41 16.69 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 8.25 10.80 14.04 18.30 20.46 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 8.94 9.66 13.02 15.45 19.62 Hand packers and packagers.............. 10.75 10.75 11.24 11.55 13.00 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 11.23 13.25 15.12 16.52 20.16 Service......................................... 7.25 9.00 10.94 15.13 24.58 Protective service........................ 7.50 9.33 22.71 24.58 27.48 Police and detectives, public service... 24.58 24.58 24.58 26.68 28.60 Guards and police, except public service 6.83 7.90 9.00 10.50 13.77 Food service.............................. 2.83 6.50 8.95 10.97 12.69 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.83 2.83 4.00 6.50 8.35 Other food service....................... 8.00 8.50 10.27 11.72 13.50 Cooks................................... 7.74 8.50 10.25 12.11 14.11 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 8.05 9.00 10.33 11.72 12.52 Health service............................ 7.50 9.06 10.35 11.40 13.00 Health aides, except nursing............ 7.00 8.70 9.79 11.94 13.04 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 8.15 9.50 10.60 11.40 12.95 Cleaning and building service............. 7.95 10.18 13.62 15.78 16.90 Maids and housemen...................... 5.15 7.75 9.99 10.94 12.10 Janitors and cleaners................... 8.25 11.03 13.88 16.15 16.90 Personal service.......................... 8.02 9.80 11.05 19.56 32.88 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 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-5. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2003 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $5.25 $6.00 $7.75 $10.20 $20.00 All excluding sales........................... 5.15 6.35 8.05 11.09 22.50 White collar.................................... 5.65 6.51 9.00 15.97 25.55 White collar excluding sales................ 7.59 9.00 13.71 23.74 28.77 Professional specialty and technical.......... 10.00 15.56 22.73 27.03 33.21 Professional specialty...................... 10.00 16.96 23.25 28.00 33.24 Health related............................ 18.95 22.04 24.97 28.54 34.70 Registered nurses....................... 18.90 21.49 24.17 26.50 29.29 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... 9.91 10.00 15.50 28.00 48.08 Substitute teachers..................... 9.79 10.00 10.00 10.67 15.99 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. 6.96 7.00 9.50 9.50 14.50 Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 12.67 13.71 15.18 17.43 20.75 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... - - - - - Executives, administrators, and managers.. - - - - - Management related........................ - - - - - Sales......................................... 5.50 5.76 6.50 8.30 9.65 Sales workers, other commodities........ 6.00 6.32 6.83 8.64 10.30 Cashiers................................ 5.35 5.50 6.25 7.75 9.00 Administrative support, including clerical.... 7.25 8.00 9.00 10.71 13.00 Secretaries............................. 8.82 9.00 9.00 10.96 13.41 General office clerks................... 8.00 8.00 8.00 9.50 13.56 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 5.45 10.00 10.21 12.00 13.00 Blue collar..................................... 5.25 5.90 6.68 9.35 13.25 Precision production, craft, and repair....... - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. - - - - - Transportation and material moving............ 6.05 8.25 12.50 13.25 15.00 Bus drivers............................. 9.00 12.50 13.25 15.00 17.35 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 5.25 5.50 6.50 7.55 10.00 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.25 5.50 6.35 6.50 8.40 Service......................................... 2.83 5.50 7.00 8.90 10.22 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 2.83 2.88 6.00 7.75 9.25 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.83 2.83 2.83 5.25 6.50 Waiters and waitresses.................. 2.83 2.83 2.83 2.83 3.34 Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants......... $3.61 $5.50 $6.00 $7.05 $7.85 Other food service....................... 5.50 6.25 7.45 8.75 10.46 Cooks................................... 6.50 7.25 8.00 9.75 11.00 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 5.50 6.05 7.25 8.75 10.60 Health service............................ 7.35 9.33 9.90 10.55 11.80 Health aides, except nursing............ 7.25 8.50 9.33 10.33 11.23 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 7.35 9.46 9.90 10.66 11.80 Cleaning and building service............. $6.25 $6.50 $7.50 $8.01 $10.72 Maids and housemen...................... 6.00 6.50 7.00 7.75 9.79 Janitors and cleaners................... 6.25 6.50 7.50 8.01 11.02 Personal service.......................... 5.30 6.60 7.66 9.31 10.19 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 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2003 Full-time and part-time workers Occupational group Private State and Total industry local government All occupations....................................................... 525,000 439,600 85,400 All excluding sales............................................. 482,600 398,200 84,400 White collar........................................................ 290,100 238,000 52,100 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 247,600 196,500 51,100 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 118,100 83,300 34,900 Professional specialty.......................................... 99,800 66,500 33,400 Technical....................................................... 18,300 16,800 - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 43,800 39,100 4,700 Sales............................................................. 42,400 41,400 - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 85,600 74,200 11,500 Blue collar......................................................... 119,800 107,000 12,800 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 38,400 34,900 3,400 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 25,100 25,100 – Transportation and material moving................................ 27,300 20,600 6,600 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 29,100 26,400 2,700 Service............................................................. 115,200 94,600 20,600 1 The number of workers represented by the survey are rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of the number of workers provide a description of size and composition of the labor force included in the survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for comparison to other statistical series to measure employment trends or levels. Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the survey. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria.