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Workers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud Combined Statistical Area earned an average of $23.00 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 $30.25 for healthcare practitioner and technical occupations and $22.90 for installation, maintenance, and repair occupations. Another occupational group, office and administrative support, had a mean hourly wage rate of $16.88. The NCS data available for the Minneapolis area include earnings for 21 major occupational groups with additional detail for selected occupations within those groups. (See table 1.)
Registered nurses, part of the healthcare practitioner and technical group, earned $34.60 per hour. Industrial machinery mechanics, an occupation within installation, maintenance, and repair, earned $24.68 per hour. Within the office and administrative support group, executive secretaries and administrative assistants averaged $20.23 per hour. (See table 1.)
Broad coverage of selected occupational characteristics is available from NCS for the local area. Full-time workers averaged $25.25 per hour while their part-time counterparts earned $12.56. Union workers earned $26.76 and non-union workers, $21.85. Workers in establishments with 1-99 workers averaged $20.99 per hour, those in establishments with 100-499 workers earned $20.65, and those in establishments with 500 or more employees earned $28.71.
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 586 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 1,850,400 workers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud Combined Statistical Area (CSA), which is comprised of Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin, Isanti, McLeod, Ramsey, Rice, Scott, Sherburne, Stearns, Washington, and Wright Counties in Minnesota; and, Pierce and St. Croix Counties in Wisconsin.
Survey Availability
Complete survey results are contained in Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI 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 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. CT.
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| 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 |
$23.00 | 2.7 | $25.25 | 2.7 | $12.56 | 3.1 |
Management occupations |
42.01 | 3.6 | 42.15 | 3.4 | – | – |
General and operations managers |
37.45 | 8.2 | 37.45 | 8.2 | – | – |
Marketing and sales managers |
46.11 | 3.1 | 46.11 | 3.1 | – | – |
Computer and information systems managers |
54.39 | 3.9 | 54.39 | 3.9 | – | – |
Financial managers |
42.84 | 13.4 | 42.23 | 14.3 | – | – |
Education administrators |
40.11 | 12.7 | 40.11 | 12.7 | – | – |
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school |
50.08 | 8.2 | 50.08 | 8.2 | – | – |
Medical and health services managers |
44.84 | 6.1 | 44.88 | 6.3 | – | – |
Business and financial operations occupations |
35.55 | 16.4 | 35.57 | 16.4 | – | – |
Buyers and purchasing agents |
24.79 | 7.4 | 24.79 | 7.4 | – | – |
Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators |
21.53 | 9.7 | 21.53 | 9.7 | – | – |
Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators |
21.22 | 9.5 | 21.22 | 9.5 | – | – |
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists |
24.69 | 12.6 | 24.70 | 12.9 | – | – |
Management analysts |
31.39 | 3.8 | 31.39 | 3.8 | – | – |
Accountants and auditors |
27.14 | 3.3 | 27.14 | 3.3 | – | – |
Financial analysts and advisors |
28.57 | 7.9 | 28.57 | 7.9 | – | – |
Computer and mathematical science occupations |
36.97 | 2.9 | 36.97 | 2.9 | – | – |
Computer software engineers |
42.30 | 6.4 | 42.30 | 6.4 | – | – |
Computer software engineers, applications |
41.46 | 8.8 | 41.46 | 8.8 | – | – |
Computer software engineers, systems software |
43.34 | 8.0 | 43.34 | 8.0 | – | – |
Computer support specialists |
27.85 | 5.8 | 27.85 | 5.8 | – | – |
Computer systems analysts |
40.72 | 5.2 | 40.72 | 5.2 | – | – |
Network and computer systems administrators |
32.65 | 6.5 | 32.65 | 6.5 | – | – |
Network systems and data communications analysts |
30.59 | 5.6 | 30.59 | 5.6 | – | – |
Architecture and engineering occupations |
33.23 | 8.0 | 33.69 | 7.7 | – | – |
Engineers |
40.54 | 10.2 | 40.54 | 10.2 | – | – |
Engineering technicians, except drafters |
25.31 | 6.8 | 25.91 | 7.1 | – | – |
Life, physical, and social science occupations |
33.89 | 6.9 | 34.22 | 6.5 | – | – |
Market and survey researchers |
34.98 | 11.1 | 34.98 | 11.1 | – | – |
Market research analysts |
34.98 | 11.1 | 34.98 | 11.1 | – | – |
Community and social services occupations |
20.75 | 9.6 | 21.27 | 9.1 | – | – |
Counselors |
23.63 | 2.2 | 23.33 | 2.9 | – | – |
Social workers |
23.63 | 11.2 | 23.63 | 11.2 | – | – |
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists |
17.40 | 8.1 | – | – | – | – |
Social and human service assistants |
16.46 | 1.9 | – | – | – | – |
Legal occupations |
36.72 | 9.3 | 37.09 | 9.4 | – | – |
Lawyers |
42.96 | 1.8 | 42.96 | 1.8 | – | – |
Education, training, and library occupations |
40.61 | 10.0 | 42.54 | 10.1 | 14.89 | 10.8 |
Postsecondary teachers |
64.45 | 22.8 | 64.82 | 22.9 | – | – |
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers |
36.07 | 4.5 | 36.13 | 4.7 | – | – |
Preschool and kindergarten teachers |
33.31 | 9.8 | 33.31 | 9.8 | – | – |
Kindergarten teachers, except special education |
39.43 | 6.5 | 39.43 | 6.5 | – | – |
Elementary and middle school teachers |
35.78 | 6.3 | 35.78 | 6.3 | – | – |
Elementary school teachers, except special education |
35.28 | 7.0 | 35.28 | 7.0 | – | – |
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education |
37.37 | 5.6 | 37.37 | 5.6 | – | – |
Secondary school teachers |
38.55 | 3.8 | 38.55 | 3.8 | – | – |
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education |
38.55 | 3.8 | 38.55 | 3.8 | – | – |
Teacher assistants |
13.84 | 4.8 | 14.63 | 1.5 | 12.95 | 6.9 |
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations |
25.36 | 7.9 | 25.57 | 7.7 | – | – |
Designers |
22.84 | 8.7 | 22.02 | 9.6 | – | – |
Graphic designers |
22.62 | 8.2 | 21.73 | 9.0 | – | – |
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations |
30.25 | 2.2 | 30.04 | 3.3 | 30.72 | 3.6 |
Registered nurses |
34.60 | 1.9 | 35.62 | 2.8 | 33.58 | 2.5 |
Therapists |
31.65 | 6.7 | 31.75 | 6.9 | – | – |
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians |
23.39 | 7.1 | – | – | – | – |
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians |
27.02 | 2.1 | – | – | – | – |
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses |
19.89 | 2.3 | 20.09 | 2.3 | 19.30 | 1.9 |
Healthcare support occupations |
14.71 | 6.1 | 15.33 | 8.6 | 13.46 | 5.2 |
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides |
12.94 | 5.9 | 13.21 | 7.8 | 12.47 | 5.6 |
Home health aides |
12.00 | 4.2 | – | – | 11.69 | 5.0 |
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants |
13.50 | 6.6 | 14.03 | 6.6 | 12.76 | 6.7 |
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations |
17.07 | 5.2 | 17.83 | 5.3 | – | – |
Protective service occupations |
20.98 | 11.9 | 20.88 | 12.9 | 21.67 | 22.4 |
Police officers |
28.52 | 2.4 | 28.94 | 2.0 | – | – |
Police and sheriff's patrol officers |
28.52 | 2.4 | 28.94 | 2.0 | – | – |
First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers |
16.87 | 16.5 | 17.22 | 18.0 | – | – |
Food preparation and serving related occupations |
9.04 | 2.4 | 11.73 | 4.3 | 8.03 | 2.9 |
Cooks |
12.13 | 2.8 | 12.66 | 4.0 | 11.25 | 6.1 |
Cooks, restaurant |
11.74 | 1.8 | 11.80 | 0.8 | – | – |
Food preparation workers |
9.50 | 6.5 | – | – | 9.40 | 7.0 |
Food service, tipped |
6.50 | 1.8 | 7.36 | 6.6 | 6.36 | 1.9 |
Bartenders |
7.27 | 6.1 | – | – | 6.76 | 1.4 |
Waiters and waitresses |
6.23 | 0.4 | – | – | 6.13 | 1.9 |
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers |
6.85 | 5.0 | – | – | 6.87 | 5.2 |
Fast food and counter workers |
8.40 | 4.5 | – | – | 8.36 | 5.0 |
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food |
8.97 | 8.5 | – | – | 9.02 | 9.5 |
Dishwashers |
8.38 | 3.0 | – | – | – | – |
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop |
8.13 | 3.2 | – | – | 7.79 | 5.6 |
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations |
14.33 | 5.7 | 15.35 | 5.9 | 10.20 | 1.6 |
Building cleaning workers |
13.18 | 3.7 | 13.91 | 3.7 | 10.38 | 1.3 |
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners |
14.32 | 5.3 | 15.34 | 3.6 | 10.27 | 1.5 |
Maids and housekeeping cleaners |
11.17 | 2.5 | 11.34 | 3.6 | 10.57 | 2.9 |
Grounds maintenance workers |
20.25 | 7.5 | – | – | – | – |
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers |
20.25 | 7.5 | – | – | – | – |
Personal care and service occupations |
10.26 | 7.6 | 11.28 | 10.2 | 8.87 | 8.8 |
Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers |
8.66 | 4.3 | – | – | 8.78 | 3.9 |
Recreation and fitness workers |
10.39 | 18.2 | – | – | 7.83 | 19.9 |
Recreation workers |
10.37 | 23.8 | – | – | – | – |
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers |
23.15 | 11.4 | 23.15 | 11.4 | – | – |
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers |
19.75 | 1.3 | 19.75 | 1.3 | – | – |
Sales and related occupations |
21.53 | 7.9 | 27.25 | 7.3 | 9.37 | 2.1 |
Retail sales workers |
10.91 | 2.0 | 12.99 | 3.0 | 9.26 | 1.8 |
Cashiers, all workers |
10.00 | 0.8 | 11.32 | 4.0 | 9.34 | 2.2 |
Cashiers |
10.00 | 0.8 | 11.32 | 4.0 | 9.34 | 2.2 |
Retail salespersons |
11.21 | 1.9 | 13.21 | 2.8 | 9.18 | 6.1 |
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents |
81.33 | 22.8 | 81.33 | 22.8 | – | – |
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing |
29.31 | 11.0 | 29.31 | 11.0 | – | – |
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products |
28.00 | 13.8 | 28.00 | 13.8 | – | – |
Office and administrative support occupations |
16.88 | 1.4 | 17.72 | 1.6 | 12.68 | 4.8 |
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers |
23.51 | 7.9 | 23.58 | 8.1 | – | – |
Financial clerks |
18.00 | 6.8 | 18.22 | 7.6 | 16.29 | 10.3 |
Billing and posting clerks and machine operators |
17.12 | 10.8 | – | – | – | – |
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks |
18.65 | 9.6 | 18.73 | 10.1 | – | – |
Tellers |
11.20 | 6.5 | – | – | – | – |
Customer service representatives |
16.15 | 4.8 | 17.30 | 4.8 | 12.34 | 2.6 |
Order clerks |
15.30 | 6.6 | 15.89 | 6.0 | – | – |
Receptionists and information clerks |
14.65 | 4.2 | 15.05 | 4.7 | 13.23 | 7.1 |
Production, planning, and expediting clerks |
21.09 | 4.4 | 21.09 | 4.4 | – | – |
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks |
14.01 | 11.0 | 14.01 | 11.0 | – | – |
Stock clerks and order fillers |
14.47 | 5.0 | 15.96 | 5.4 | 10.37 | 4.4 |
Secretaries and administrative assistants |
19.82 | 3.9 | 20.23 | 3.9 | 15.81 | 4.5 |
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants |
20.23 | 4.5 | 20.86 | 4.1 | – | – |
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive |
17.64 | 4.4 | 17.84 | 4.6 | – | – |
Office clerks, general |
16.09 | 5.8 | 16.41 | 5.9 | 13.28 | 8.7 |
Construction and extraction occupations |
27.68 | 13.8 | 27.75 | 13.9 | – | – |
Carpenters |
20.43 | 7.9 | 20.43 | 7.9 | – | – |
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers |
27.81 | 10.9 | 27.81 | 10.9 | – | – |
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations |
22.90 | 4.1 | 22.90 | 4.1 | – | – |
Automotive technicians and repairers |
21.05 | 7.3 | 21.05 | 7.3 | – | – |
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists |
22.76 | 4.8 | 22.76 | 4.8 | – | – |
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers |
21.69 | 6.7 | 21.69 | 6.7 | – | – |
Industrial machinery mechanics |
24.68 | 4.3 | 24.68 | 4.3 | – | – |
Maintenance and repair workers, general |
18.51 | 10.8 | 18.51 | 10.8 | – | – |
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers |
25.65 | 4.8 | 25.65 | 4.8 | – | – |
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators |
13.59 | 18.2 | 13.97 | 20.7 | – | – |
Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers |
18.71 | 12.6 | 18.71 | 12.6 | – | – |
Computer control programmers and operators |
23.20 | 5.3 | 23.20 | 5.3 | – | – |
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic |
17.37 | 6.8 | 17.37 | 6.8 | – | – |
Printers |
19.74 | 4.8 | 19.74 | 4.8 | – | – |
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers |
19.12 | 15.0 | 19.12 | 15.0 | – | – |
Production occupations |
17.19 | 3.9 | 17.48 | 3.8 | 9.58 | 2.7 |
Miscellaneous production workers |
12.79 | 4.2 | 13.20 | 4.4 | – | – |
Helpers--production workers |
13.37 | 7.4 | – | – | – | – |
Transportation and material moving occupations |
17.21 | 13.1 | 19.77 | 15.1 | 10.90 | 5.6 |
Bus drivers |
15.95 | 9.1 | – | – | 14.38 | 9.7 |
Bus drivers, school |
14.65 | 8.6 | – | – | 14.18 | 10.1 |
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers |
19.47 | 4.2 | 19.47 | 4.2 | – | – |
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer |
19.32 | 4.4 | 19.32 | 4.4 | – | – |
Truck drivers, light or delivery services |
19.89 | 13.8 | 19.89 | 13.8 | – | – |
Dredge, excavating, and loading machine operators |
24.86 | 11.3 | – | – | – | – |
Industrial truck and tractor operators |
15.57 | 8.7 | 15.57 | 8.7 | – | – |
Laborers and material movers, hand |
11.38 | 7.3 | 12.98 | 11.3 | 9.92 | 4.7 |
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand |
12.26 | 8.6 | 14.25 | 10.8 | 10.26 | 5.9 |
Packers and packagers, hand |
10.51 | 5.7 | 11.00 | 11.5 | 9.86 | 6.1 |
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: April 21, 2009
