NC BL 12/00/2008 Table: Lincoln, NE, Bulletin, April 2008 Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Civilian Private industry State and local government workers workers workers Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Worker and establishment characteristics Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All workers........................................................... $16.78 2.7 35.3 $15.77 3.2 35.1 $21.37 5.0 36.7 Worker characteristics(4)(5) Management, professional, and related............................... 25.52 3.7 38.7 24.55 4.7 39.0 27.51 6.2 38.0 Management, business, and financial............................... 27.54 7.5 42.4 27.95 9.8 43.4 26.46 7.5 40.0 Professional and related.......................................... 24.69 3.7 37.3 23.00 3.1 37.2 27.85 9.1 37.4 Service............................................................. 10.81 4.3 30.0 9.88 6.7 29.3 14.64 5.0 32.8 Sales and office.................................................... 13.84 1.8 34.5 13.70 2.0 34.2 15.06 4.3 36.9 Sales and related................................................. 13.44 6.1 31.9 13.30 6.3 31.8 – – – Office and administrative support................................. 14.00 2.2 35.6 13.87 2.5 35.4 14.79 3.5 36.8 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 17.27 4.6 39.7 16.96 5.0 39.9 18.78 10.7 38.4 Construction and extraction...................................... 15.71 2.0 39.1 15.52 2.2 39.0 – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 18.23 7.3 40.5 17.98 8.8 40.6 19.07 13.2 40.0 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 14.33 3.9 37.7 14.22 4.0 37.6 – – – Production........................................................ 14.91 3.8 39.6 14.75 3.9 39.6 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 13.69 7.7 35.7 13.68 7.7 35.8 – – – Full time........................................................... 17.91 2.7 40.0 16.93 3.1 40.2 22.02 4.9 39.5 Part time........................................................... 10.55 6.1 21.4 9.85 3.8 21.3 15.64 20.1 22.3 Union............................................................... 19.44 3.9 38.4 16.71 5.2 39.3 20.79 4.2 38.0 Nonunion............................................................ 16.38 3.1 34.9 15.71 3.4 34.8 21.92 8.0 35.5 Time................................................................ 16.71 2.6 35.2 15.63 3.0 34.9 21.35 5.0 36.6 Incentive........................................................... 18.41 20.9 37.6 18.23 21.8 37.6 – – – Establishment characteristics Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) – – – (6) (6) (6) Service providing................................................... (6) (6) (6) – – – (6) (6) (6) 1-99 workers........................................................ 15.30 6.0 34.9 15.13 6.4 34.7 18.02 11.3 37.2 100-499 workers..................................................... 16.52 6.3 35.5 15.20 6.3 34.9 22.52 9.0 38.9 500 workers or more................................................. 19.81 3.9 36.1 18.34 4.3 36.3 21.86 6.0 35.8 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 5 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 6 Estimates for goods-producing and service-providing industries are published for private industry only. Industries are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $16.78 2.7 $17.91 2.7 $10.55 6.1 Management occupations.............................................. 30.60 6.4 30.59 6.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 26.72 5.4 26.72 5.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 30.38 10.1 30.38 10.1 – – Education administrators.......................................... 27.21 8.5 27.11 8.6 – – Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 27.00 9.8 – – – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 24.82 11.3 24.82 11.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 26.42 2.4 26.42 2.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.37 5.2 20.37 5.2 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 23.78 7.5 23.78 7.5 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 23.90 5.8 23.90 5.8 – – Engineers......................................................... 27.89 11.1 27.89 11.1 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 17.93 3.5 17.93 3.5 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 24.31 19.3 24.31 19.3 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 16.10 5.0 16.10 5.0 – – Legal occupations................................................... 18.23 9.7 18.44 9.6 – – Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 16.65 1.2 16.65 1.2 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 31.84 12.0 31.81 13.6 32.09 11.3 Level 7 .................................................. 20.76 13.7 – – – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.14 1.2 35.49 .7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 33.23 23.6 33.29 23.5 – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 38.64 27.2 39.62 28.7 26.17 2.2 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 35.83 2.0 35.21 .1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.30 1.5 35.66 .2 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 35.49 .8 35.49 .8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 35.82 .8 35.82 .8 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 35.46 1.2 35.46 1.2 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 36.78 3.2 – – – – Teacher assistants................................................ 10.96 5.0 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 24.03 4.9 24.52 5.7 22.27 6.3 Level 7 .................................................. 24.27 1.2 – – – – Level 9 .................................................. 25.73 2.3 25.75 2.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 26.24 11.1 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 22.54 5.8 22.42 5.9 22.93 14.4 Level 9 .................................................. 24.95 3.0 24.97 3.0 – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 27.32 2.9 – – – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 18.60 2.7 – – – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.90 10.8 13.20 11.3 – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.91 6.5 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.91 8.2 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 13.96 20.1 15.23 20.6 9.30 9.3 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.12 5.6 10.03 8.8 6.69 2.4 Level 1 .................................................. 5.91 26.4 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 7.09 1.0 – – 6.97 1.1 Level 3 .................................................. 6.50 18.0 – – 6.49 18.2 Level 4 .................................................. 9.46 1.5 9.52 1.8 – – First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 12.55 6.0 12.55 6.0 – – First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 12.55 6.0 12.55 6.0 – – Cooks............................................................. – – 11.24 6.3 – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.89 .4 – – – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.83 26.5 – – 4.22 15.7 Level 2 .................................................. 9.14 7.0 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 4.87 41.0 – – – – Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.92 18.5 – – 4.21 15.9 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.43 1.9 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.33 8.0 11.77 10.0 9.82 6.0 Level 1 .................................................. 8.43 5.6 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.52 8.6 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.64 7.5 10.88 9.4 9.84 6.4 Level 1 .................................................. 8.43 5.6 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.55 8.4 12.14 10.6 9.96 7.3 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.37 7.0 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.21 12.9 11.87 17.1 8.84 4.9 Sales and related occupations....................................... 13.44 6.1 15.50 6.2 8.21 2.2 Level 2 .................................................. 8.51 .8 – – 7.77 5.8 Level 3 .................................................. 8.30 1.7 – – 7.83 2.4 Level 4 .................................................. 13.00 15.4 13.38 14.8 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.77 12.8 18.77 12.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 13.29 11.7 14.14 13.3 – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 16.46 10.6 16.46 10.6 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 16.46 10.6 16.46 10.6 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.35 9.8 12.11 7.5 8.13 3.1 Level 2 .................................................. 8.51 .8 – – 7.77 5.8 Level 4 .................................................. 13.15 18.8 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.05 2.3 – – 8.04 2.5 Level 2 .................................................. 9.15 8.4 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 9.05 2.3 – – 8.04 2.5 Level 2 .................................................. 9.15 8.4 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 10.62 15.0 12.89 13.4 8.19 4.5 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.00 2.2 14.51 2.5 10.86 2.3 Level 2 .................................................. 9.62 4.6 9.55 9.9 9.70 6.2 Level 3 .................................................. 11.47 3.8 11.57 4.1 10.70 5.1 Level 4 .................................................. 12.94 2.0 13.08 1.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 15.75 2.0 15.75 2.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 16.68 2.2 16.93 2.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 19.90 4.2 19.90 4.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 13.38 3.6 14.35 3.2 10.74 .7 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.19 4.2 13.53 5.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.85 5.9 12.85 5.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.41 2.8 12.68 3.1 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.97 4.2 14.39 5.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.81 4.0 13.28 4.6 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 12.68 4.4 12.97 5.0 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.02 10.2 13.15 9.7 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 11.66 5.9 12.19 7.3 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.33 3.8 16.50 4.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.69 5.3 14.69 5.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 16.98 6.1 16.98 6.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.46 3.0 16.05 5.4 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 17.01 6.0 17.01 6.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 16.62 9.3 16.62 9.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.63 5.4 17.63 5.4 – – Medical secretaries............................................. 15.32 5.4 16.40 6.3 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.81 4.3 13.81 4.3 – – Data entry and information processing workers..................... 14.14 5.0 14.59 3.7 – – Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 16.74 4.5 16.74 4.5 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 13.42 4.2 13.56 4.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.41 6.8 13.41 6.8 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 15.71 2.0 15.73 1.9 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.23 7.3 18.23 7.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.45 10.0 17.45 10.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 22.44 6.7 22.44 6.7 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.51 5.8 18.51 5.8 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.69 6.9 17.69 6.9 – – Production occupations.............................................. 14.91 3.8 15.00 4.3 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.55 2.6 10.39 1.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.16 2.5 14.16 2.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.53 7.1 16.53 7.1 – – Level 6 .................................................. 14.19 4.4 14.19 4.4 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 13.02 2.4 – – – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 13.02 2.4 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.69 7.7 14.91 10.3 8.84 8.8 Level 1 .................................................. 8.96 8.0 – – 7.95 8.2 Level 2 .................................................. 12.09 4.8 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.07 2.4 13.07 2.4 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.56 17.6 16.28 19.1 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.71 4.1 11.69 5.4 9.10 9.1 Level 1 .................................................. 9.17 8.2 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.07 7.3 – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $15.77 3.2 $16.93 3.1 $9.85 3.8 Management occupations.............................................. 32.68 6.0 32.67 6.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 28.05 4.3 28.05 4.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 33.87 6.6 33.87 6.6 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 24.38 14.4 24.38 14.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 26.03 2.1 26.03 2.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.48 5.5 20.48 5.5 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 23.58 10.1 23.58 10.1 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 23.09 3.9 23.09 3.9 – – Engineers......................................................... 26.02 8.3 26.02 8.3 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 17.93 3.5 17.93 3.5 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 16.00 8.2 16.00 8.2 – – Legal occupations................................................... 16.31 1.6 – – – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 31.93 13.0 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 23.88 4.2 23.94 4.9 23.64 4.5 Level 9 .................................................. 26.05 1.4 26.07 1.4 – – Registered nurses................................................. 23.27 5.9 22.45 6.2 – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 27.32 2.9 – – – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.96 11.2 13.25 11.7 – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.87 7.2 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.89 8.7 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.97 6.3 9.77 9.8 6.62 2.7 Level 1 .................................................. 5.77 31.4 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 7.05 1.1 – – 6.94 1.1 Level 3 .................................................. 6.44 18.7 – – 6.49 18.2 Level 4 .................................................. 9.52 1.8 9.52 1.8 – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.89 .4 – – – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.83 26.6 – – 4.21 15.9 Level 3 .................................................. 4.87 41.0 – – – – Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.92 18.5 – – 4.21 15.9 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.43 1.9 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.38 10.5 12.10 13.2 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.43 5.6 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.43 10.2 10.88 13.5 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.43 5.6 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.70 12.5 13.19 15.9 – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.37 7.0 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.08 2.8 – – 8.35 5.2 Sales and related occupations....................................... 13.30 6.3 15.30 6.4 8.18 2.1 Level 2 .................................................. 8.48 .7 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 8.30 1.7 – – 7.83 2.4 Level 4 .................................................. 11.90 15.0 12.14 15.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 13.29 11.7 14.14 13.3 – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 16.46 10.6 16.46 10.6 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 16.46 10.6 16.46 10.6 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 9.97 9.8 11.48 7.0 8.10 3.0 Level 2 .................................................. 8.48 .7 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.05 2.3 – – 7.95 2.5 Level 2 .................................................. 9.17 9.3 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 9.05 2.3 – – 7.95 2.5 Level 2 .................................................. 9.17 9.3 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 9.90 13.2 – – 8.19 4.5 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.87 2.5 14.39 3.0 10.86 2.5 Level 2 .................................................. 9.60 4.8 9.50 10.3 9.70 6.2 Level 3 .................................................. 11.43 3.9 11.55 4.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.99 2.1 13.16 1.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 15.82 1.9 15.82 1.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 17.08 3.0 17.55 2.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 19.62 4.6 19.62 4.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 13.30 3.9 14.28 4.4 10.81 .7 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.18 4.3 13.53 5.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.85 5.9 12.85 5.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.37 2.8 12.63 3.2 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.98 4.3 14.42 5.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.75 4.0 13.21 4.6 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 12.68 4.4 12.97 5.0 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.01 10.4 13.15 9.7 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 11.66 5.9 12.19 7.3 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.24 4.9 17.69 5.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.54 2.4 – – – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 18.74 6.5 18.74 6.5 – – Data entry and information processing workers..................... 14.14 5.0 14.59 3.7 – – Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 16.74 4.5 16.74 4.5 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 13.32 4.4 13.46 4.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.33 6.9 13.33 6.9 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 15.52 2.2 15.53 2.1 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 17.98 8.8 17.98 8.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.23 5.4 21.23 5.4 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.41 9.8 18.41 9.8 – – Production occupations.............................................. 14.75 3.9 14.85 4.5 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.55 2.6 10.39 1.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.16 2.5 14.16 2.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.53 7.1 16.53 7.1 – – Level 6 .................................................. 14.19 4.4 14.19 4.4 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 13.02 2.4 – – – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 13.02 2.4 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.68 7.7 14.91 10.3 8.76 9.0 Level 1 .................................................. 8.96 8.0 – – 7.95 8.2 Level 2 .................................................. 12.06 4.9 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.07 2.4 13.07 2.4 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.56 17.6 16.28 19.1 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.71 4.1 11.69 5.4 9.10 9.1 Level 1 .................................................. 9.17 8.2 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.07 7.3 – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. Table 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $21.37 5.0 $22.02 4.9 $15.64 20.1 Management occupations.............................................. 26.53 12.0 26.53 12.0 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 24.33 6.8 24.33 6.8 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 31.83 13.1 31.80 14.9 32.12 11.4 Level 9 .................................................. 36.14 1.2 35.49 .7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 33.27 23.7 33.33 23.6 – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 38.95 31.8 40.12 33.8 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 35.83 2.0 35.21 .1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.30 1.5 35.66 .2 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 35.49 .8 35.49 .8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 35.82 .8 35.82 .8 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 35.46 1.2 35.46 1.2 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 36.78 3.2 – – – – Teacher assistants................................................ 10.96 5.0 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 24.91 24.1 28.51 26.3 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 18.36 10.7 19.63 11.0 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.26 14.0 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.15 5.7 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.26 6.1 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.26 6.1 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 16.63 13.3 – – 9.83 3.6 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.79 3.5 15.16 2.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 15.99 2.8 15.99 2.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 13.62 8.0 14.51 3.0 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.46 4.0 15.46 4.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 15.96 3.1 15.96 3.1 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 15.23 5.9 15.23 5.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 15.09 6.9 15.09 6.9 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.07 13.2 19.07 13.2 – – 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. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. Table 5. Combined work levels(1) for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(2) for full-time and part-time workers(3), Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $16.78 2.7 $17.91 2.7 $10.55 6.1 Management occupations.............................................. 30.60 6.4 30.59 6.4 – – Group III................................................. 30.85 9.2 – – – – Education administrators.......................................... 27.21 8.5 27.11 8.6 – – Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 27.00 9.8 – – – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 24.82 11.3 24.82 11.3 – – Group II.................................................. 22.88 23.6 – – – – Group III................................................. 31.74 10.3 – – – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 23.78 7.5 23.78 7.5 – – Group II.................................................. 20.58 4.1 – – – – Group III................................................. 24.84 8.3 – – – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 23.90 5.8 23.90 5.8 – – Group II.................................................. 18.44 6.0 – – – – Engineers......................................................... 27.89 11.1 27.89 11.1 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 17.93 3.5 17.93 3.5 – – Group II.................................................. 18.93 3.8 – – – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 24.31 19.3 24.31 19.3 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 16.10 5.0 16.10 5.0 – – Group II.................................................. 15.19 6.0 – – – – Legal occupations................................................... 18.23 9.7 18.44 9.6 – – Group II.................................................. 17.40 6.0 – – – – Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 16.65 1.2 16.65 1.2 – – Group II.................................................. 16.65 1.2 16.65 1.2 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 31.84 12.0 31.81 13.6 32.09 11.3 Group II.................................................. 18.43 16.2 – – – – Group III................................................. 34.96 4.1 – – – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 38.64 27.2 39.62 28.7 26.17 2.2 Group III................................................. 36.42 10.8 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 35.83 2.0 35.21 .1 – – Group III................................................. 36.30 1.5 – – – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 35.49 .8 35.49 .8 – – Group III................................................. 35.82 .8 – – – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 35.46 1.2 35.46 1.2 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 36.78 3.2 – – – – Teacher assistants................................................ 10.96 5.0 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 24.03 4.9 24.52 5.7 22.27 6.3 Group II.................................................. 21.62 6.2 – – – – Group III................................................. 25.80 2.3 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 22.54 5.8 22.42 5.9 22.93 14.4 Group II.................................................. 20.61 13.6 – – – – Group III................................................. 24.95 3.0 24.97 3.0 – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 27.32 2.9 – – – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 18.60 2.7 – – – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.90 10.8 13.20 11.3 – – Group I................................................... 12.23 12.0 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.91 6.5 – – – – Group I................................................... 10.86 7.4 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.91 8.2 – – – – Group I................................................... 10.85 9.7 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 13.96 20.1 15.23 20.6 9.30 9.3 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.12 5.6 10.03 8.8 6.69 2.4 Group I................................................... 7.14 2.6 – – – – Group II.................................................. 13.22 7.0 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 12.55 6.0 12.55 6.0 – – First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 12.55 6.0 12.55 6.0 – – Cooks............................................................. – – 11.24 6.3 – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.89 .4 – – – – Group I................................................... 9.89 .4 – – – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.83 26.5 – – 4.22 15.7 Group I................................................... 4.83 26.5 – – – – Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.92 18.5 – – 4.21 15.9 Group I................................................... 3.92 18.5 – – 4.21 15.9 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.43 1.9 – – – – Group I................................................... 7.43 1.9 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.33 8.0 11.77 10.0 9.82 6.0 Group I................................................... 9.67 2.6 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.64 7.5 10.88 9.4 9.84 6.4 Group I................................................... 9.47 3.6 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.55 8.4 12.14 10.6 9.96 7.3 Group I................................................... 10.28 4.4 10.59 4.8 9.96 7.3 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.37 7.0 – – – – Group I................................................... 8.37 7.0 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.21 12.9 11.87 17.1 8.84 4.9 Group I................................................... 8.97 1.8 – – – – Group II.................................................. 15.25 10.9 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 13.44 6.1 15.50 6.2 8.21 2.2 Group I................................................... 10.09 12.5 – – – – Group II.................................................. 18.57 6.9 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 16.46 10.6 16.46 10.6 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 16.46 10.6 16.46 10.6 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.35 9.8 12.11 7.5 8.13 3.1 Group I................................................... 9.97 14.6 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.05 2.3 – – 8.04 2.5 Group I................................................... 8.91 1.6 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 9.05 2.3 – – 8.04 2.5 Group I................................................... 8.91 1.6 – – 7.98 2.1 Retail salespersons............................................. 10.62 15.0 12.89 13.4 8.19 4.5 Group I................................................... 9.72 20.4 – – 8.01 .0 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.00 2.2 14.51 2.5 10.86 2.3 Group I................................................... 12.10 2.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 17.03 2.7 – – – – Financial clerks.................................................. 13.19 4.2 13.53 5.4 – – Group I................................................... 12.10 4.0 – – – – Group II.................................................. 16.05 3.8 – – – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.97 4.2 14.39 5.6 – – Group I................................................... 12.85 3.0 13.25 3.5 – – Group II.................................................. 16.05 3.8 16.05 3.8 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 12.68 4.4 12.97 5.0 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.02 10.2 13.15 9.7 – – Group I................................................... 11.81 3.8 11.87 3.5 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 11.66 5.9 12.19 7.3 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.33 3.8 16.50 4.0 – – Group I................................................... 14.54 4.5 – – – – Group II.................................................. 17.45 5.0 – – – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 17.01 6.0 17.01 6.0 – – Group II.................................................. 17.20 8.3 17.20 8.3 – – Medical secretaries............................................. 15.32 5.4 16.40 6.3 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.81 4.3 13.81 4.3 – – Data entry and information processing workers..................... 14.14 5.0 14.59 3.7 – – Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 16.74 4.5 16.74 4.5 – – Group II.................................................. 20.10 .5 20.10 .5 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 13.42 4.2 13.56 4.2 – – Group I................................................... 13.09 5.3 13.27 5.6 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 15.71 2.0 15.73 1.9 – – Group I................................................... 12.82 4.3 – – – – Group II.................................................. 16.66 2.8 – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.23 7.3 18.23 7.3 – – Group II.................................................. 20.83 4.8 – – – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.51 5.8 18.51 5.8 – – Group II.................................................. 18.42 8.0 – – – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.69 6.9 17.69 6.9 – – Group II.................................................. 17.08 10.2 17.08 10.2 – – Production occupations.............................................. 14.91 3.8 15.00 4.3 – – Group I................................................... 13.02 6.2 – – – – Group II.................................................. 16.73 5.8 – – – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 13.02 2.4 – – – – Group I................................................... 13.02 2.4 – – – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 13.02 2.4 – – – – Group I................................................... 13.02 2.4 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.69 7.7 14.91 10.3 8.84 8.8 Group I................................................... 12.54 8.5 – – – – Group II.................................................. 18.96 2.8 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.56 17.6 16.28 19.1 – – Group I................................................... 15.16 21.6 – – – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.71 4.1 11.69 5.4 9.10 9.1 Group I................................................... 10.40 5.5 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.07 7.3 – – – – Group I................................................... 9.38 4.6 – – – – 1 Combined work levels simplify the presentation of work levels by combining levels 1 through 15 into four broad groups. Group I combines levels 1-4, group II combines levels 5-8, group III combines levels 9-12, and group IV combines levels 13-15. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $8.33 $10.82 $14.77 $20.00 $27.35 Management occupations.............................................. 22.30 25.06 28.95 34.14 45.67 Education administrators.......................................... 25.13 25.13 25.13 25.13 32.08 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 25.13 25.13 25.13 25.13 25.13 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.17 18.51 21.43 25.48 44.77 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 15.72 16.83 22.47 27.09 33.27 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 14.00 16.50 22.60 32.81 32.81 Engineers......................................................... 22.12 22.60 23.61 33.43 40.48 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 13.85 14.50 18.70 20.20 22.00 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 15.87 17.99 22.26 31.58 34.89 Community and social services occupations........................... 12.15 14.42 15.87 17.89 18.06 Legal occupations................................................... 14.48 16.51 17.00 21.27 23.75 Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 15.95 16.51 16.59 17.55 17.65 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 11.57 19.23 31.58 40.43 49.53 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 20.30 30.77 32.62 44.96 61.28 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 27.01 30.20 33.71 40.55 46.41 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 26.30 30.20 34.11 40.55 45.15 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 26.30 30.05 33.71 40.55 45.68 Secondary school teachers....................................... 29.39 31.76 33.71 46.41 47.93 Teacher assistants................................................ 9.70 10.07 11.37 11.57 11.57 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 12.75 18.54 23.40 26.92 31.97 Registered nurses................................................. 14.70 19.42 23.12 26.15 27.54 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 18.26 22.61 31.97 31.97 31.97 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 15.23 16.63 18.54 21.55 21.55 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 8.33 10.50 13.00 16.11 17.21 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 8.33 9.70 10.64 11.25 15.04 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 8.33 9.70 10.50 11.36 15.31 Protective service occupations...................................... 7.50 8.50 10.93 19.05 25.00 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 3.25 6.50 7.50 9.71 14.25 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 8.33 10.60 13.76 14.25 14.25 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 8.33 10.60 13.76 14.25 14.25 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 7.50 8.25 10.25 11.00 11.72 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.13 2.15 2.85 6.96 11.94 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.13 2.13 2.70 3.75 8.50 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.10 6.55 7.36 7.81 8.90 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 7.99 8.79 10.00 11.63 19.29 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.99 8.46 10.00 11.30 16.57 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.79 9.55 10.32 11.63 19.29 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 7.00 7.80 8.00 8.56 10.62 Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.00 8.50 9.33 10.60 19.52 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.50 8.70 10.60 17.61 24.35 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 11.51 12.00 14.75 19.50 27.51 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 11.51 12.00 14.75 19.50 27.51 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.31 7.70 9.20 10.53 17.61 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.31 7.70 8.85 10.30 11.05 Cashiers...................................................... 7.31 7.70 8.85 10.30 11.05 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.34 7.70 9.27 10.60 20.02 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.00 11.39 13.57 15.75 19.06 Financial clerks.................................................. 9.50 11.50 12.88 15.00 16.52 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.25 12.00 14.42 15.75 17.47 Customer service representatives.................................. 9.70 11.00 12.93 14.42 16.00 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 10.04 11.48 12.15 13.60 18.88 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 8.60 9.75 11.56 12.80 14.24 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 11.95 13.57 15.36 19.06 21.30 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 13.27 13.85 15.83 20.47 23.13 Medical secretaries............................................. 10.84 11.51 14.29 19.06 20.38 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 10.90 11.95 13.57 14.21 17.42 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 11.00 11.10 13.60 16.53 16.53 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 11.05 12.36 19.68 20.25 20.25 Office clerks, general............................................ 10.82 12.80 13.59 14.50 16.08 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 12.00 13.72 15.20 18.00 20.00 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 8.50 14.50 18.53 22.19 25.00 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 14.00 15.49 18.77 19.49 24.23 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 14.00 14.53 16.99 19.49 24.23 Production occupations.............................................. 9.75 11.66 15.14 17.93 19.59 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 9.75 10.00 11.06 17.93 17.93 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 9.75 10.00 11.06 17.93 17.93 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 7.80 10.50 13.10 15.32 20.00 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 12.00 12.10 13.89 16.80 28.17 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 6.59 9.00 10.50 12.60 13.10 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 6.59 8.00 10.40 11.70 13.00 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $8.00 $10.37 $14.20 $19.02 $25.70 Management occupations.............................................. 24.50 25.77 32.98 36.25 45.67 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.51 18.51 21.15 25.29 44.77 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 15.72 15.72 19.23 27.09 33.65 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 14.00 16.50 22.12 31.31 32.81 Engineers......................................................... 22.12 22.60 23.27 27.45 35.88 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 13.85 14.50 18.70 20.20 22.00 Community and social services occupations........................... 10.63 14.42 16.79 17.94 18.06 Legal occupations................................................... 14.00 16.51 16.59 17.00 17.55 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 18.13 21.81 33.42 39.48 40.43 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 15.23 19.12 24.97 27.04 31.97 Registered nurses................................................. 18.56 20.20 24.30 26.15 29.23 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 18.26 22.61 31.97 31.97 31.97 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 8.33 10.50 13.00 16.11 17.21 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 8.33 9.70 10.50 11.15 15.22 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 8.33 9.70 10.50 11.31 15.31 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 3.00 6.50 7.50 9.63 14.25 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 7.50 8.25 10.25 11.00 11.72 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.13 2.15 2.85 6.96 11.94 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.13 2.13 2.70 3.75 8.50 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.10 6.55 7.36 7.81 8.90 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 7.88 8.22 10.00 12.21 19.29 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.80 8.00 9.55 10.62 19.29 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.99 9.00 10.00 12.56 19.29 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 7.00 7.80 8.00 8.56 10.62 Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.00 8.50 9.00 9.50 10.00 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.35 8.70 10.60 17.03 22.79 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 11.51 12.00 14.75 19.50 27.51 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 11.51 12.00 14.75 19.50 27.51 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.31 7.70 9.10 10.50 17.61 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.31 7.70 8.85 10.34 11.09 Cashiers...................................................... 7.31 7.70 8.85 10.34 11.09 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.34 7.70 9.27 10.45 15.66 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 9.60 11.27 13.37 15.75 19.06 Financial clerks.................................................. 9.50 11.46 12.88 15.00 16.52 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.25 12.00 14.42 15.39 17.47 Customer service representatives.................................. 9.70 11.00 12.93 14.42 16.00 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 10.04 11.40 12.15 13.26 18.88 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 8.60 9.75 11.56 12.80 14.24 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 11.95 13.85 18.58 20.47 23.13 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 13.85 14.73 19.12 21.30 23.19 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 11.00 11.10 13.60 16.53 16.53 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 11.05 12.36 19.68 20.25 20.25 Office clerks, general............................................ 10.82 12.11 13.59 14.50 15.54 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 12.00 13.72 15.20 17.00 20.00 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 8.25 14.50 18.75 22.19 24.67 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 14.00 14.79 16.48 21.72 25.59 Production occupations.............................................. 9.75 11.36 15.14 17.93 19.59 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 9.75 10.00 11.06 17.93 17.93 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 9.75 10.00 11.06 17.93 17.93 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 7.80 10.50 13.10 15.32 20.00 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 12.00 12.10 13.89 16.80 28.17 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 6.59 9.00 10.50 12.60 13.10 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 6.59 8.00 10.40 11.70 13.00 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 8. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $10.90 $13.53 $18.08 $25.13 $35.49 Management occupations.............................................. 21.36 23.45 25.13 27.00 35.49 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 17.65 21.12 22.54 28.49 33.11 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 11.57 19.23 31.26 41.52 53.25 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 20.30 30.09 31.58 53.25 65.89 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 27.01 30.20 33.71 40.55 46.41 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 26.30 30.20 34.11 40.55 45.15 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 26.30 30.05 33.71 40.55 45.68 Secondary school teachers....................................... 29.39 31.76 33.71 46.41 47.93 Teacher assistants................................................ 9.70 10.07 11.37 11.57 11.57 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 12.23 14.70 18.17 22.44 86.54 Protective service occupations...................................... 9.00 13.14 18.12 20.89 28.71 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 6.55 6.75 8.60 13.16 15.37 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.25 9.66 10.74 11.63 13.47 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.25 9.87 11.24 11.63 14.21 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 9.25 9.87 11.24 11.63 14.21 Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.94 11.10 18.19 21.49 22.91 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.72 12.65 14.16 16.91 18.80 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 11.51 13.47 14.21 17.85 20.06 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 12.96 13.47 14.20 16.47 18.57 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 12.71 14.34 16.75 19.49 30.92 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 9. Full-time(1) civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(2), Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Full-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $9.50 $12.00 $15.62 $21.08 $28.71 Management occupations.............................................. 22.30 25.06 28.95 34.14 45.67 Education administrators.......................................... 25.13 25.13 25.13 25.13 27.93 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.17 18.51 21.43 25.48 44.77 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 15.72 16.83 22.47 27.09 33.27 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 14.00 16.50 22.60 32.81 32.81 Engineers......................................................... 22.12 22.60 23.61 33.43 40.48 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 13.85 14.50 18.70 20.20 22.00 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 15.87 17.99 22.26 31.58 34.89 Community and social services occupations........................... 12.15 14.42 15.87 17.89 18.06 Legal occupations................................................... 14.84 16.59 17.00 21.27 23.75 Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 15.95 16.51 16.59 17.55 17.65 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 11.57 19.23 31.26 40.46 49.53 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 21.64 30.77 32.75 49.53 65.10 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 26.30 30.16 34.08 40.55 45.15 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 26.30 30.20 34.11 40.55 45.15 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 26.30 30.05 33.71 40.55 45.68 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 12.67 18.54 24.00 27.00 31.97 Registered nurses................................................. 12.13 20.09 23.41 26.15 26.75 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 8.33 10.29 13.00 16.11 17.21 Protective service occupations...................................... 8.00 8.75 13.47 20.40 28.71 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.70 8.00 10.60 13.53 14.25 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 8.33 10.60 13.76 14.25 14.25 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 8.33 10.60 13.76 14.25 14.25 Cooks............................................................. 8.50 10.00 10.83 11.72 15.38 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.00 8.79 10.60 12.56 19.29 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.00 8.50 10.25 11.63 19.29 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.79 9.90 11.00 12.56 19.29 Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.50 9.00 9.50 13.14 20.15 Sales and related occupations....................................... 8.85 9.73 14.35 19.69 26.20 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 11.51 12.00 14.75 19.50 27.51 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 11.51 12.00 14.75 19.50 27.51 Retail sales workers.............................................. 8.30 9.00 10.00 14.12 20.02 Retail salespersons............................................. 8.25 9.27 9.60 20.02 20.02 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.23 12.00 13.85 16.52 19.46 Financial clerks.................................................. 9.50 11.75 13.82 15.39 17.00 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.75 12.88 14.58 15.86 17.50 Customer service representatives.................................. 9.83 11.23 12.93 14.42 16.91 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 10.04 11.48 12.15 13.65 18.88 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 9.20 10.30 12.51 12.80 15.62 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 12.00 13.57 15.51 19.12 21.30 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 13.27 13.85 15.83 20.47 23.13 Medical secretaries............................................. 11.51 14.21 15.91 19.06 20.38 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 10.90 11.95 13.57 14.21 17.42 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 11.10 12.01 16.53 16.53 16.53 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 11.05 12.36 19.68 20.25 20.25 Office clerks, general............................................ 10.82 13.17 13.59 14.50 16.61 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 12.00 13.72 15.20 18.00 20.00 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 8.50 14.50 18.53 22.19 25.00 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 14.00 15.49 18.77 19.49 24.23 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 14.00 14.53 16.99 19.49 24.23 Production occupations.............................................. 9.75 11.66 15.14 17.93 19.59 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 10.50 12.00 13.70 15.32 22.62 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 12.00 12.50 14.00 20.00 28.17 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.00 10.00 12.00 13.10 13.70 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 10. Part-time(1) civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(2), Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Part-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $6.50 $7.35 $8.71 $11.27 $15.75 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 20.30 27.34 31.79 34.36 47.93 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 20.30 20.30 27.34 31.79 31.79 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 15.75 17.41 21.55 25.12 32.12 Registered nurses................................................. 14.70 16.32 22.05 31.64 32.13 Protective service occupations...................................... 7.40 7.65 8.50 9.68 9.68 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 3.75 6.45 6.75 7.81 8.00 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.13 2.15 3.00 6.96 8.50 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.13 2.15 2.85 6.96 8.50 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 7.99 7.99 10.00 10.00 10.62 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.99 7.99 10.00 10.00 10.62 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.99 9.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 Personal care and service occupations............................... 7.43 8.00 8.27 10.18 10.86 Sales and related occupations....................................... 6.50 7.34 7.70 9.00 10.53 Retail sales workers.............................................. 6.00 7.31 7.70 9.00 10.45 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.31 7.31 7.70 8.60 9.60 Cashiers...................................................... 7.31 7.31 7.70 8.60 9.60 Retail salespersons............................................. 5.85 7.34 7.70 9.15 10.60 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 8.55 9.69 11.25 12.00 13.46 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 6.59 6.59 7.80 10.48 12.04 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 6.59 6.59 8.50 11.23 12.63 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 11. Full-time(1) civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $17.91 $15.62 $717 $622 40.0 $36,652 $32,365 2,047 Management occupations.............................................. 30.59 28.95 1,299 1,225 42.5 67,470 63,700 2,206 Education administrators.......................................... 27.11 25.13 1,105 1,005 40.8 57,220 52,268 2,111 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 24.82 21.43 1,053 980 42.4 54,731 50,949 2,205 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 23.78 22.47 950 899 39.9 49,396 46,738 2,077 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 23.90 22.60 997 904 41.7 51,863 47,000 2,170 Engineers......................................................... 27.89 23.61 1,184 1,062 42.4 61,544 55,238 2,207 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 17.93 18.70 717 748 40.0 37,304 38,896 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 24.31 22.26 973 890 40.0 50,573 46,301 2,080 Community and social services occupations........................... 16.10 15.87 646 635 40.1 33,582 32,999 2,086 Legal occupations................................................... 18.44 17.00 726 671 39.4 37,769 34,900 2,048 Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 16.65 16.59 649 663 39.0 33,764 34,501 2,028 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 31.81 31.26 1,202 1,231 37.8 47,747 47,778 1,501 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 39.62 32.75 1,570 1,310 39.6 62,245 52,406 1,571 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 35.21 34.08 1,268 1,228 36.0 47,964 46,658 1,362 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 35.49 34.11 1,267 1,228 35.7 47,990 46,658 1,352 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 35.46 33.71 1,272 1,248 35.9 48,146 47,436 1,358 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 24.52 24.00 975 918 39.8 50,697 47,755 2,068 Registered nurses................................................. 22.42 23.41 875 868 39.0 45,476 45,136 2,029 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.20 13.00 522 520 39.5 27,137 27,040 2,056 Protective service occupations...................................... 15.23 13.47 609 539 40.0 31,686 28,018 2,080 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.03 10.60 379 375 37.8 19,615 19,504 1,955 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 12.55 13.76 512 570 40.8 26,476 29,642 2,110 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 12.55 13.76 512 570 40.8 26,476 29,642 2,110 Cooks............................................................. 11.24 10.83 406 375 36.1 20,706 19,504 1,841 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.77 10.60 467 413 39.7 24,290 21,459 2,064 Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.88 10.25 432 397 39.7 22,438 20,634 2,062 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.14 11.00 486 440 40.0 25,259 22,880 2,080 Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.87 9.50 459 360 38.7 23,869 18,720 2,011 Sales and related occupations....................................... 15.50 14.35 622 545 40.1 32,322 28,359 2,085 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 16.46 14.75 671 590 40.8 34,890 30,672 2,119 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 16.46 14.75 671 590 40.8 34,890 30,672 2,119 Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.11 10.00 473 396 39.0 24,575 20,592 2,030 Retail salespersons............................................. 12.89 9.60 482 370 37.4 25,076 19,240 1,946 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.51 13.85 577 554 39.8 29,924 28,787 2,062 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.53 13.82 541 553 40.0 28,147 28,746 2,080 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 14.39 14.58 576 583 40.0 29,936 30,326 2,080 Customer service representatives.................................. 12.97 12.93 519 517 40.0 26,980 26,894 2,080 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.15 12.15 526 486 40.0 27,355 25,272 2,080 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.19 12.51 488 500 40.0 25,360 26,021 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.50 15.51 660 619 40.0 33,852 32,074 2,051 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 17.01 15.83 680 633 40.0 35,352 32,924 2,078 Medical secretaries............................................. 16.40 15.91 656 636 40.0 34,116 33,093 2,080 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.81 13.57 552 543 40.0 26,959 24,856 1,952 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 14.59 16.53 568 640 38.9 29,539 33,300 2,024 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 16.74 19.68 650 763 38.8 33,793 39,659 2,018 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.56 13.59 530 527 39.1 27,502 27,392 2,028 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 15.73 15.20 629 608 40.0 32,626 31,616 2,074 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.23 18.53 738 741 40.5 38,364 38,536 2,104 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.51 18.77 740 751 40.0 38,498 39,042 2,080 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.69 16.99 708 680 40.0 36,801 35,339 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 15.00 15.14 599 606 39.9 30,872 31,491 2,058 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.91 13.70 599 540 40.2 30,518 27,581 2,046 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 16.28 14.00 651 560 40.0 31,596 27,248 1,940 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.69 12.00 468 480 40.0 24,312 24,960 2,080 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 12. Full-time(1) private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $16.93 $15.22 $680 $606 40.2 $35,213 $31,491 2,080 Management occupations.............................................. 32.67 32.98 1,432 1,442 43.8 74,463 75,001 2,279 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 24.38 21.15 1,052 980 43.1 54,692 50,949 2,243 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 23.58 19.23 941 769 39.9 48,946 40,000 2,076 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 23.09 22.12 966 904 41.8 50,209 47,000 2,175 Engineers......................................................... 26.02 23.27 1,114 1,047 42.8 57,905 54,449 2,225 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 17.93 18.70 717 748 40.0 37,304 38,896 2,080 Community and social services occupations........................... 16.00 16.79 643 672 40.2 33,447 34,929 2,090 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 23.94 24.97 951 971 39.7 49,468 50,502 2,066 Registered nurses................................................. 22.45 23.75 875 861 39.0 45,480 44,782 2,026 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.25 13.00 524 520 39.5 27,227 27,040 2,055 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.77 10.00 369 360 37.7 19,170 18,720 1,961 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.10 10.60 479 389 39.6 24,911 20,238 2,058 Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.88 8.96 430 358 39.5 22,349 18,637 2,055 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.19 11.00 528 440 40.0 27,430 22,880 2,080 Sales and related occupations....................................... 15.30 13.63 614 545 40.1 31,905 28,359 2,085 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 16.46 14.75 671 590 40.8 34,890 30,672 2,119 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 16.46 14.75 671 590 40.8 34,890 30,672 2,119 Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.48 9.85 448 384 39.0 23,278 19,968 2,027 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.39 13.82 572 553 39.8 29,763 28,746 2,068 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.53 13.82 541 553 40.0 28,140 28,746 2,080 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 14.42 14.58 577 583 40.0 30,003 30,326 2,080 Customer service representatives.................................. 12.97 12.93 519 517 40.0 26,980 26,894 2,080 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.15 12.15 526 486 40.0 27,355 25,272 2,080 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.19 12.51 488 500 40.0 25,360 26,021 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.69 18.69 707 748 40.0 36,754 38,875 2,078 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 18.74 19.12 749 765 39.9 38,924 39,770 2,077 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 14.59 16.53 568 640 38.9 29,539 33,300 2,024 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 16.74 19.68 650 763 38.8 33,793 39,659 2,018 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.46 13.59 526 527 39.0 27,326 27,392 2,030 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 15.53 15.20 621 608 40.0 32,215 31,616 2,074 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 17.98 18.75 730 750 40.6 37,969 39,000 2,111 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.41 16.48 736 659 40.0 38,285 34,278 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 14.85 15.14 593 606 39.9 30,534 31,491 2,056 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.91 13.70 599 540 40.2 30,582 27,581 2,051 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 16.28 14.00 651 560 40.0 31,596 27,248 1,940 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.69 12.00 468 480 40.0 24,312 24,960 2,080 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 13. Full-time(1) State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $22.02 $18.56 $870 $748 39.5 $42,215 $38,397 1,917 Management occupations.............................................. 26.53 25.13 1,061 1,005 40.0 55,062 52,268 2,075 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 24.33 22.54 973 902 40.0 50,599 46,883 2,080 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 31.80 31.26 1,192 1,228 37.5 47,317 47,436 1,488 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 40.12 32.75 1,586 1,310 39.5 63,912 52,406 1,593 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 35.21 34.08 1,268 1,228 36.0 47,964 46,658 1,362 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 35.49 34.11 1,267 1,228 35.7 47,990 46,658 1,352 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 35.46 33.71 1,272 1,248 35.9 48,146 47,436 1,358 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 28.51 19.71 1,140 788 40.0 59,302 40,997 2,080 Protective service occupations...................................... 19.63 19.05 785 762 40.0 40,823 39,624 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.16 14.20 607 568 40.0 30,821 29,544 2,032 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.46 14.21 619 568 40.0 31,360 29,544 2,028 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 15.23 14.20 609 568 40.0 31,669 29,544 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.07 16.75 763 670 40.0 39,674 34,840 2,080 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings(1) of private industry establishments for major occupational groups, Lincoln, NE, April 2008 1-99 100-499 500 Occupational group(2) Total workers workers workers or more All workers.................................. $15.77 $15.13 $15.20 $18.34 Management, professional, and related...... 24.55 24.30 23.83 25.87 Management, business, and financial...... 27.95 29.85 22.39 25.39 Professional and related................. 23.00 21.47 24.09 26.18 Service.................................... 9.88 9.26 11.33 – Sales and office........................... 13.70 13.67 12.67 14.83 Sales and related........................ 13.30 15.04 10.88 – Office and administrative support........ 13.87 13.07 14.20 14.94 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance............................... 16.96 16.25 – – Construction and extraction............. 15.52 15.50 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair.... 17.98 16.78 – – Production, transportation, and material moving.................................... 14.22 13.37 14.49 15.90 Production............................... 14.75 13.13 14.12 17.15 Transportation and material moving....... 13.68 13.50 15.12 – B 1-99 100-499 500 Total workers workers workers or more Occupational group(2) Relative error(3) (percent) Relative error(3) (percent) All workers........................................................... 3.2 6.4 6.3 4.3 Management, professional, and related............................... 4.7 7.2 4.9 4.6 Management, business, and financial............................... 9.8 14.7 12.8 3.3 Professional and related.......................................... 3.1 6.2 4.8 6.8 Service............................................................. 6.7 8.6 14.2 – Sales and office.................................................... 2.0 3.8 4.7 3.6 Sales and related................................................. 6.3 9.7 8.7 – Office and administrative support................................. 2.5 3.6 5.7 2.8 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 5.0 4.4 – – Construction and extraction...................................... 2.2 3.3 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 8.8 7.9 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 4.0 4.5 11.2 10.6 Production........................................................ 3.9 5.1 12.8 12.9 Transportation and material moving................................ 7.7 6.2 22.5 – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 15. Establishments with fewer than 100 workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time(1) private industry workers, Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $16.42 $14.75 $665 $580 40.5 $34,479 $30,160 2,099 Management occupations.............................................. 32.34 32.98 1,439 1,484 44.5 74,852 77,176 2,315 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 26.84 18.51 1,268 1,018 47.2 65,932 52,939 2,456 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 23.42 25.70 964 999 41.2 50,148 51,938 2,142 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.31 13.00 526 520 39.5 27,348 27,040 2,054 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.74 8.57 332 340 37.9 17,246 17,680 1,973 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.21 8.79 362 352 39.4 18,848 18,287 2,047 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.77 8.46 345 330 39.3 17,919 17,160 2,043 Sales and related occupations....................................... 16.71 14.75 670 590 40.1 34,828 30,672 2,085 Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.60 10.50 482 400 38.3 25,073 20,800 1,990 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.48 13.75 538 550 39.9 27,950 28,600 2,073 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.63 14.42 545 577 40.0 28,360 30,000 2,080 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 14.53 14.58 581 583 40.0 30,228 30,326 2,080 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.30 11.90 532 476 40.0 27,666 24,750 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.91 15.51 636 620 40.0 33,093 32,259 2,080 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.62 13.84 530 554 38.9 27,549 28,787 2,023 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 15.52 14.00 621 560 40.0 32,139 28,560 2,070 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 16.78 18.75 687 700 41.0 35,733 36,400 2,130 Production occupations.............................................. 13.16 13.25 526 530 40.0 27,368 27,560 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.27 13.26 571 530 40.0 28,938 27,248 2,028 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time(1) private industry workers, Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $17.63 $15.75 $700 $632 39.7 $36,221 $32,889 2,054 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 21.87 21.77 867 871 39.6 45,090 45,282 2,061 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.54 29.98 1,142 1,199 40.0 59,360 62,358 2,080 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 24.34 23.46 942 905 38.7 48,985 47,050 2,012 Registered nurses................................................. 21.16 21.43 799 764 37.8 41,549 39,743 1,964 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 11.11 11.92 416 400 37.4 21,616 20,800 1,946 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 17.53 19.29 701 771 40.0 36,471 40,117 2,080 Building cleaning workers......................................... 15.17 14.23 607 569 40.0 31,564 29,598 2,080 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 15.17 14.23 607 569 40.0 31,564 29,598 2,080 Sales and related occupations....................................... 13.62 12.00 546 480 40.1 28,393 24,960 2,085 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.24 13.85 605 554 39.7 31,438 28,808 2,063 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.14 12.86 525 514 40.0 27,321 26,747 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 18.40 19.06 735 762 39.9 38,211 39,645 2,077 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.30 21.20 770 848 39.9 40,052 44,096 2,076 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 16.81 19.68 652 763 38.7 33,879 39,659 2,015 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.22 13.59 519 527 39.2 26,978 27,384 2,041 Production occupations.............................................. 15.73 16.58 628 663 39.9 32,159 34,488 2,044 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.76 14.40 684 572 40.8 35,589 29,744 2,123 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 17. Union(1) and nonunion workers: Mean hourly earnings(2) for major occupational groups, Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Union Nonunion Occupational group(3) Private State and Private State and Civilian industry local Civilian industry local workers workers government workers workers government workers workers All workers........................................................... $19.44 $16.71 $20.79 $16.38 $15.71 $21.92 Management, professional, and related............................... 24.70 – 24.70 25.68 24.55 30.22 Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 27.90 27.95 27.73 Professional and related.......................................... 24.96 – 24.96 24.63 23.00 31.56 Service............................................................. 17.01 – 17.32 9.91 9.82 10.81 Sales and office.................................................... 14.58 – – 13.80 13.69 15.45 Sales and related................................................. – – – 13.44 13.30 – Office and administrative support................................. 14.58 – – 13.96 13.86 15.02 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 17.68 – 20.44 17.15 17.18 16.93 Construction and extraction...................................... – – – 15.58 15.50 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 20.50 – 20.40 17.87 17.93 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 17.52 17.52 – 13.55 13.38 – Production........................................................ – – – 14.33 14.06 – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – 12.75 12.73 – Union Nonunion Private State and Private State and Civilian industry local Civilian industry local workers workers government workers workers government workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 3.9 5.2 4.2 3.1 3.4 8.0 Management, professional, and related............................... 6.6 – 6.6 4.3 4.7 10.7 Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 7.9 9.8 6.4 Professional and related.......................................... 8.1 – 8.1 4.4 3.1 19.4 Service............................................................. 6.8 – 7.4 5.7 6.4 6.9 Sales and office.................................................... 3.1 – – 1.9 2.0 6.8 Sales and related................................................. – – – 6.1 6.3 – Office and administrative support................................. 3.1 – – 2.3 2.5 5.4 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 10.8 – 11.0 5.4 5.9 13.9 Construction and extraction...................................... – – – 3.1 3.3 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 11.1 – 12.3 8.0 8.9 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 4.7 4.7 – 3.2 3.3 – Production........................................................ – – – 3.5 3.4 – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – 6.5 6.6 – 1 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 18. Time and incentive workers(1): Mean hourly earnings(2) for major occupational groups, Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Time Incentive Occupational group(3) Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers All workers........................................................... $16.71 $15.63 $18.41 $18.23 Management, professional, and related............................... 25.33 24.25 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 26.97 27.17 – – Professional and related.......................................... 24.68 22.96 – – Service............................................................. 10.82 9.87 – – Sales and office.................................................... 13.74 13.62 14.99 14.48 Sales and related................................................. 12.59 12.61 16.10 15.56 Office and administrative support................................. 14.09 13.98 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 16.90 16.49 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 15.52 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 17.73 17.27 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 14.09 13.96 – – Production........................................................ 14.48 14.27 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 13.68 13.68 – – Time Incentive Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 2.6 3.0 20.9 21.8 Management, professional, and related............................... 3.5 4.4 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 6.5 8.5 – – Professional and related.......................................... 3.7 3.0 – – Service............................................................. 4.4 6.8 – – Sales and office.................................................... 1.8 2.1 15.0 15.6 Sales and related................................................. 6.6 6.7 15.5 16.4 Office and administrative support................................. 2.0 2.3 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 6.1 7.0 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 2.2 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 9.8 12.5 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 4.0 4.1 – – Production........................................................ 3.1 3.0 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 7.8 7.8 – – 1 Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary. Incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 19. Industry sector(1): Mean hourly earnings(2) for private industry workers by major occupational group, Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Goods producing Service providing Occupational group(3) Trade, Profes- Education Leisure Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Other tion turing tation, mation activiti- and health hospital- services and es business services ity utilities services All workers........................................................... – – – – – – $17.48 – $15.33 Management, professional, and related............................... – – – – – – 23.81 – – Management, business, and financial............................... – – – – – – 25.67 – – Professional and related.......................................... – – – – – – 23.73 – – Service............................................................. – – – – – – 11.70 – – Sales and office.................................................... – – – – – – 14.25 – – Sales and related................................................. – – – – – – – – – Office and administrative support................................. – – – – – – 14.25 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – – – – – – – – – Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – – – – – – – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – – – – – – – – – Production........................................................ – – – – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – – – – – – – B Goods producing Service providing Trade, Profes- Education Leisure Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Other Occupational group(3) tion turing tation, mation activiti- and health hospital- services and es business services ity utilities services Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... – – – – – – 3.2 – 6.8 Management, professional, and related............................... – – – – – – 3.3 – – Management, business, and financial............................... – – – – – – 23.9 – – Professional and related.......................................... – – – – – – 3.4 – – Service............................................................. – – – – – – 13.0 – – Sales and office.................................................... – – – – – – 4.8 – – Sales and related................................................. – – – – – – – – – Office and administrative support................................. – – – – – – 4.8 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – – – – – – – – – Construction and extraction...................................... – – – – – – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – – – – – – – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – – – – – – – – – Production........................................................ – – – – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – – – – – – – 1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Private State and Occupational group(2) Civilian industry local workers workers government workers All workers........................................................... 154,800 125,800 29,000 Management, professional, and related............................... 39,000 24,800 14,200 Management, business, and financial............................... 9,900 7,000 2,900 Professional and related.......................................... 29,200 17,800 11,300 Service............................................................. 34,700 28,000 6,600 Sales and office.................................................... 48,900 43,900 5,000 Sales and related................................................. 15,200 14,900 – Office and administrative support................................. 33,800 29,100 4,700 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 13,200 10,900 2,300 Construction and extraction...................................... 4,900 4,600 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 8,100 6,300 1,900 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 19,000 18,200 – Production........................................................ 9,400 8,600 – Transportation and material moving................................ 9,600 9,500 – 1 The number of workers represented by the survey are rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of the number of workers provide a description of size and composition of the labor force included in the survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for comparison to other statistical series to measure employment trends or levels. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Appendix table 2. Survey establishment response, Lincoln, NE, April 2008 Private State and Establishments Total industry local government Total in sampling frame(1)............................................ 6,759 6,572 187 Total in sample....................................................... 236 209 27 Responding........................................................ 143 117 26 Refused or unable to provide data................................. 62 61 1 Out of business or not in survey scope............................ 31 31 0 1 The list of establishments from which the survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was developed from State unemployment insurance reports and is based on the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). For private industries, an establishment is usually a single physical location. For State and local governments, an establishment is defined as all locations of a government entity. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria.