NC SM 01/00/2009 Table: Southeastern Nebraska-Northwestern Missouri, Summary, April 2008 Table 1. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Southeastern Nebraska-Northwestern Missouri, 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........................................................... $20.89 5.5 $21.57 5.7 $10.68 10.0 Management occupations.............................................. 42.01 21.1 42.01 21.1 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 25.29 6.3 25.47 6.1 – – Level 3 .................................................. 8.88 1.0 8.88 1.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.21 1.0 27.23 1.0 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 27.40 .8 27.40 .8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.40 .8 27.40 .8 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 27.91 1.8 27.91 1.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.91 1.8 27.91 1.8 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 27.89 1.8 27.89 1.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.89 1.8 27.89 1.8 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 26.75 3.6 26.75 3.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 26.75 3.6 26.75 3.6 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 26.75 3.6 26.75 3.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 26.75 3.6 26.75 3.6 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 8.97 1.6 8.97 1.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 8.88 1.0 8.88 1.0 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 22.56 6.1 22.73 7.0 – – Registered nurses................................................. 25.19 7.9 25.19 7.9 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 15.36 4.2 15.68 4.6 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.83 6.0 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.47 5.8 12.07 5.3 8.98 4.0 Level 3 .................................................. 10.50 1.5 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.69 5.9 – – – – Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 10.55 7.9 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.32 8.4 15.56 9.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.04 3.4 12.07 3.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 15.72 4.5 – – – – Financial clerks.................................................. 13.35 3.4 13.37 3.5 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.29 3.9 13.32 4.0 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.78 11.6 15.88 11.2 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 15.68 14.0 15.68 14.0 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 16.53 12.3 17.38 14.6 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.26 24.8 22.26 24.8 – – Production occupations.............................................. 24.47 4.1 24.55 4.3 – – 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 2. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Southeastern Nebraska-Northwestern Missouri, April 2008 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $10.08 $13.14 $17.99 $27.50 $33.28 Management occupations.............................................. 15.39 24.09 54.33 54.33 56.02 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 9.60 19.87 26.44 30.82 34.07 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 19.92 23.91 27.49 30.88 33.87 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 20.30 24.29 27.49 30.88 36.26 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 20.72 24.29 27.49 30.88 36.26 Secondary school teachers....................................... 19.87 22.27 26.95 29.26 33.54 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 19.87 22.27 26.95 29.26 33.54 Teacher assistants................................................ 7.61 8.00 8.61 10.08 10.55 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 16.18 19.00 20.42 27.76 30.74 Registered nurses................................................. 19.00 20.82 25.00 30.00 31.53 Protective service occupations...................................... 13.00 13.14 14.13 18.43 19.52 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.05 8.75 10.44 11.19 11.44 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.74 9.52 12.60 13.02 13.32 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.36 10.45 12.64 13.02 13.32 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 8.00 8.49 8.74 14.65 14.65 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.00 12.50 14.00 18.98 21.43 Financial clerks.................................................. 9.30 12.00 13.10 14.00 18.26 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 9.30 12.00 13.10 15.20 18.26 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 10.00 13.16 15.00 19.07 19.55 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 10.00 13.16 15.00 19.07 19.55 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 10.50 11.07 14.28 17.88 28.31 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 12.12 14.13 15.12 32.31 35.62 Production occupations.............................................. 14.89 18.62 26.00 31.77 32.00 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 3. Full-time(1) State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Southeastern Nebraska-Northwestern Missouri, 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........................................................... $21.57 $18.62 $856 $736 39.7 $39,824 $34,300 1,846 Management occupations.............................................. 42.01 54.33 1,758 2,173 41.8 91,397 113,004 2,176 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 25.47 26.67 1,011 1,048 39.7 38,103 39,100 1,496 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 27.40 27.49 1,079 1,094 39.4 39,746 40,176 1,451 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 27.91 27.49 1,106 1,100 39.6 40,823 40,463 1,463 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 27.89 27.49 1,105 1,094 39.6 40,821 40,463 1,464 Secondary school teachers....................................... 26.75 26.95 1,061 1,078 39.7 39,028 38,999 1,459 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 26.75 26.95 1,061 1,078 39.7 39,028 38,999 1,459 Teacher assistants................................................ 8.97 8.61 349 344 38.9 12,556 12,420 1,400 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 22.73 20.82 889 833 39.1 45,259 42,474 1,991 Registered nurses................................................. 25.19 25.00 991 944 39.3 49,903 47,840 1,981 Protective service occupations...................................... 15.68 14.15 627 566 40.0 32,620 29,432 2,080 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.07 12.97 483 519 40.0 24,148 26,853 2,001 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.56 14.12 619 593 39.8 31,157 29,370 2,002 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.37 13.10 533 524 39.9 27,720 27,248 2,073 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.32 13.10 531 524 39.9 27,593 27,248 2,072 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.88 15.00 635 600 40.0 31,843 29,516 2,005 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 15.68 15.00 627 600 40.0 32,618 31,200 2,080 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 17.38 15.72 695 629 40.0 36,143 32,698 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.26 15.12 890 605 40.0 46,300 31,448 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 24.55 26.00 982 1,040 40.0 51,066 54,082 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