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Highlights of Columbus-Marion-Chillicothe, OH
National Compensation Survey, April 2008

 

Workers in the Columbus-Marion-Chillicothe Combined Statistical Area earned an average of $20.02 per hour in April 2008, according to new survey results from the National Compensation Survey (NCS) released by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).  Regional Commissioner Jay A. Mousa noted that wage data were reported for workers in a wide range of occupational groups, including average hourly earnings of $28.83 for business and financial operations occupations and $14.97 for office and administrative support occupations.  Another occupational group, food preparation and serving related, had a mean hourly wage rate of $8.40.  The NCS data available for the Columbus area include earnings for 21 major occupational groups with additional detail for selected occupations within those groups.  (See table 1.)


Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators, part of the business and financial operations occupational group, were paid $25.07 per hour.  Within the office and administrative support occupational group, customer service representatives earned $14.45 per hour.  Combined food preparation and serving workers (including fast food), an occupation within the food preparation and serving related occupational group, averaged $7.83 per hour.


Broad coverage of selected occupational characteristics is available from NCS for the local area.  Full-time workers averaged $20.87 per hour while their part-time counterparts earned $14.67.  Union workers earned $23.54 and non-union workers, $19.31.  Workers in establishments with 1-99 workers averaged $16.37 per hour, those in establishments with 100-499 workers earned $20.60, and those in establishments with 500 or more employees earned $24.21.


The occupational wage data available from NCS may be used by businesses for establishing pay plans, making decisions concerning plant relocation, and in collective bargaining negotiations.  Individuals may use such data to help choose potential careers.  NCS results also include the work level and respective earnings for occupations determined by a point factor leveling process.  The four occupational leveling factors are: knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment.  Details on the NCS are available at www.bls.gov/ncs/home.htm.


The NCS data provided here covered 340 establishments with one or more workers in private industry and State and local governments.  Agricultural establishments, private households, the self-employed, and the Federal Government were excluded from the survey.  This sample of establishments represented 956,800 workers in the Columbus-Marion-Chillicothe Combined Statistical Area (CSA), which is comprised of Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Knox, Licking, Madison, Marion, Morrow, Pickaway, Ross, and Union Counties in Ohio.


Survey Availability


Complete survey results are contained in Columbus-Marion-Chillicothe, OH National Compensation Survey April 2008.  The bulletin is available on the Internet in both text and PDF formats at www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm.


For additional information, please contact the Bureau of Labor Statistics Midwest Information Office in Chicago at (312) 353-1880 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET. 



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Bulletin tables  - PDF format
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Table 1. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings (1) for full-time and part-time workers (2), Columbus-Marion-Chillicothe, OH CSA, April 2008
Occupation (3) Total Full-time workers Part-time workers
Mean Relative error (4) (percent) Mean Relative error (4) (percent) Mean Relative error (4) (percent)

All workers

20.02 4.1 20.87 2.8 14.67 26.0

Management occupations

41.67 11.0 42.69 11.2

Financial managers

37.80 16.2 37.80 16.2

Education administrators

36.64 10.7

Business and financial operations occupations

28.83 8.2 28.82 8.4

Buyers and purchasing agents

35.02 20.6 35.02 20.6

Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators

25.07 6.2 25.07 6.2

Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators

25.07 6.2 25.07 6.2

Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists

30.93 8.2 30.93 8.2

Accountants and auditors

20.19 6.5 20.19 6.5

Loan counselors and officers

35.10 8.9 35.10 8.9

Loan officers

35.10 8.9 35.10 8.9

Computer and mathematical science occupations

28.36 7.3 28.36 7.3

Network and computer systems administrators

28.67 6.5 28.67 6.5

Architecture and engineering occupations

29.78 9.0 29.78 9.0

Engineers

32.01 10.6 32.01 10.6

Electrical and electronics engineers

29.96 13.6 29.96 13.6

Electrical engineers

30.40 15.8 30.40 15.8

Engineering technicians, except drafters

19.53 10.8 19.53 10.8

Life, physical, and social science occupations

30.57 12.5 29.73 14.8

Community and social services occupations

16.93 4.2 17.09 4.0

Miscellaneous community and social service specialists

16.13 18.9

Legal occupations

23.73 11.7

Education, training, and library occupations

41.00 7.9 41.67 7.3 25.16 9.1

Postsecondary teachers

59.99 10.4 60.94 10.0

Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary

38.06 7.1 38.06 7.1

Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers

38.98 4.2 39.51 2.8

Elementary and middle school teachers

40.76 1.7 40.72 1.7

Elementary school teachers, except special education

40.26 0.2 40.19 0.2

Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education

41.70 4.0 41.70 4.0

Secondary school teachers

36.12 11.0 38.48 4.7

Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education

36.98 3.6 36.98 3.6

Special education teachers

36.39 3.2 35.68 3.5

Other teachers and instructors

34.26 26.8

Teacher assistants

13.92 5.2 13.92 5.2

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations

15.84 6.8 16.84 6.6

Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations

40.89 30.9 30.77 10.8

Registered nurses

34.36 18.2 35.20 20.4 29.71 3.8

Diagnostic related technologists and technicians

20.34 6.2

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses

21.13 2.5 21.52 2.5

Healthcare support occupations

11.80 5.4 11.86 5.4 11.43 6.9

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides

11.49 7.0 11.53 7.2 11.25 7.1

Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants

11.44 2.3 11.51 2.9 11.15 0.7

Protective service occupations

19.17 5.1 19.57 4.6

Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers

17.37 3.2 17.37 3.2

Food preparation and serving related occupations

8.40 2.2 10.36 5.4 7.08 4.8

Cooks

12.14 10.3 12.84 10.7

Food service, tipped

4.95 23.7 5.64 25.2

Waiters and waitresses

3.97 21.2 4.34 32.6

Fast food and counter workers

7.83 6.6 9.54 3.2 7.40 2.6

Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food

7.83 6.6 9.54 3.2 7.40 2.6

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations

11.49 4.3 12.14 5.5 9.25 6.4

Building cleaning workers

11.12 6.3 11.73 7.6 8.81 5.6

Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners

12.04 7.1 12.64 8.1

Maids and housekeeping cleaners

9.26 5.8 9.59 9.9

Personal care and service occupations

11.76 11.5 14.31 9.3 9.06 14.0

Sales and related occupations

15.82 8.3 20.43 7.0 8.10 3.2

Retail sales workers

11.38 11.5 14.63 13.7 8.18 5.1

Cashiers, all workers

9.15 3.1 8.52 2.2

Cashiers

9.23 3.2 8.61 2.5

Retail salespersons

11.52 17.2 16.18 18.8 7.80 2.9

Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing

29.06 16.2 29.06 16.2

Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products

29.06 16.2 29.06 16.2

Office and administrative support occupations

14.97 2.5 15.26 2.5 10.85 5.8

First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers

20.87 7.2 20.87 7.2

Financial clerks

14.30 6.5 14.55 6.3

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks

16.18 9.8 16.71 9.2

Tellers

10.84 2.8 10.85 3.2

Customer service representatives

14.45 3.3 14.64 3.4

Order clerks

14.33 5.9

Receptionists and information clerks

11.53 4.8

Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks

12.11 7.2 12.11 7.2

Stock clerks and order fillers

12.22 2.7 12.63 3.1

Secretaries and administrative assistants

18.11 3.2 18.13 3.2

Executive secretaries and administrative assistants

21.02 4.6 21.02 4.6

Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive

16.78 3.0 16.80 2.9

Data entry and information processing workers

12.04 8.0 12.04 8.0

Data entry keyers

12.39 10.8 12.39 10.8

Insurance claims and policy processing clerks

15.32 5.6

Office clerks, general

14.09 6.6 14.13 6.8

Construction and extraction occupations

21.05 10.4 21.06 10.5

Carpenters

19.11 3.7 19.11 3.7

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations

19.77 5.7 19.76 6.0

Automotive technicians and repairers

20.39 10.5 20.39 10.5

Automotive service technicians and mechanics

20.39 10.5 20.39 10.5

Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists

17.22 6.1 17.33 6.1

Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers

19.73 10.3 19.73 10.3

Maintenance and repair workers, general

18.03 16.1 18.03 16.1

Production occupations

15.98 7.2 16.08 7.4

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators

16.18 15.0 16.18 15.0

Laundry and dry-cleaning workers

11.43 7.5 11.43 7.5

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers

12.85 5.2 12.85 5.2

Transportation and material moving occupations

14.29 6.2 15.04 8.2 10.71 9.3

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers

17.89 12.3 18.24 12.0

Industrial truck and tractor operators

14.73 5.9 14.73 5.9

Laborers and material movers, hand

11.57 4.3 12.08 5.5 10.39 9.4

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand

12.04 4.4 13.06 7.1 10.47 9.8

Packers and packagers, hand

11.40 5.8

Footnotes:
(1) Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours.
(2) Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
(3) Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system.

(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.


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.

 

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

 

Last Modified Date: December 10, 2008