Highlights of New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA, National Compensation Survey, April 2008

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Cheryl Abbot, Regional Economist                                      December 17, 2008
(214) 767-6970                                              
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                         HIGHLIGHTS OF NEW ORLEANS-METAIRIE-KENNER, LA
                            NATIONAL COMPENSATION SURVEY APRIL 2008

     Workers in the New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner metropolitan area earned an average of 
$20.79 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 Stanley W. Suchman noted that wage data were 
reported for workers in a wide range of occupational groups, including average hourly 
earnings of $27.07 for healthcare practitioner and technical occupations and $16.61 for 
transportation and material moving occupations.  Another occupational group, office and 
administrative support, had an average hourly wage rate of $15.96.  The NCS data available 
for the New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner area include earnings for 19 major occupational groups 
with additional detail for selected occupations within those groups.  (See table 1.)
       
     Registered nurses, part of the healthcare practitioner and technical occupational 
group, earned $32.13 per hour.  Within the transportation and material moving occupational 
group, sailors and marine oilers averaged $13.36 per hour and hand laborers and freight, 
stock and material movers, $11.97.  Executive secretaries and administrative assistants, an 
occupation within the office and administrative support group, registered an average hourly 
rate of $20.91, and general office clerks earned $14.07 per hour.  (See table 1.)
       
     Broad coverage of selected occupational characteristics is available from NCS for the 
local area.  Full-time workers averaged $22.23 per hour while their part-time counterparts 
earned $9.30.  Union workers earned $23.14 and non-union workers, $20.57.  Workers in 
establishments with 1-99 workers averaged $17.09 per hour, those in establishments with 100-
499 workers earned $23.60, and those in establishments with 500 or more employees earned 
$26.09.

     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 http://www.bls.gov/ncs/home.htm.
       
     The NCS data reported here covered 228 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 475,600 workers in the New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner 
metropolitan area which is comprised of Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. 
Charles, St. John the Baptist, and St. Tammany Parishes in Louisiana.

Survey Availability
     Complete survey results are contained in the New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA National 
Compensation Survey April 2008 which is available on the Internet in both text and PDF 
formats at http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm.  
       
     For personal assistance or further information on the National Compensation Survey, as 
well as other Bureau data, contact the Southwest Information Office by calling (214) 767-
6970 from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. CT.  



	Table 1.  Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2), New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA, 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
			$20.79
			5.4
			$22.23
			5.5
			$9.30
			4.6
		
		
			Management occupations
			43.72
			10.5
			43.72
			10.5
			-
			-
		
		
			Engineering managers
			65.86
			11.7
			65.86
			11.7
			-
			-
		
		
			Business and financial operations occupations
			30.00
			11.1
			30.00
			11.1
			-
			-
		
		
			Accountants and auditors
			30.31
			21.0
			30.31
			21.0
			-
			-
		
		
			Computer and mathematical science occupations
			27.30
			7.8
			27.30
			7.8
			-
			-
		
		
			Architecture and engineering occupations
			36.11
			12.0
			36.11
			12.0
			-
			-
		
		
			Engineers
			38.07
			13.1
			38.07
			13.1
			-
			-
		
		
			Life, physical, and social science occupations
			36.92
			6.6
			36.92
			6.6
			-
			-
		
		
			Community and social services occupations
			20.26
			14.2
			20.17
			14.4
			-
			-
		
		
			Social workers
			20.45
			5.1
			20.45
			5.1
			-
			-
		
		
			Education, training, and library occupations
			33.40
			1.9
			34.14
			2.7
			10.83
			29.9
		
		
			Postsecondary teachers
			40.03
			7.1
			40.88
			8.2
			-
			-
		
		
			Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers
			29.65
			7.4
			29.90
			6.6
			-
			-
		
		
			Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers
			36.54
			2.4
			36.54
			2.4
			-
			-
		
		
			Elementary and middle school teachers
			34.70
			1.8
			34.70
			1.8
			-
			-
		
		
			Elementary school teachers, except special education
			34.70
			1.9
			34.70
			1.9
			-
			-
		
		
			Teacher assistants
			16.35
			4.2
			16.34
			4.2
			-
			-
		
		
			Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations
			27.07
			3.4
			27.24
			3.7
			22.81
			17.2
		
		
			Registered nurses
			32.13
			3.1
			31.96
			3.4
			-
			-
		
		
			Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
			18.41
			3.6
			18.41
			3.6
			-
			-
		
		
			Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians
			15.36
			7.4
			-
			-
			-
			-
		
		
			Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses
			19.50
			10.1
			19.52
			10.5
			-
			-
		
		
			Healthcare support occupations
			18.18
			28.0
			18.52
			28.5
			-
			-
		
		
			Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides
			9.85
			4.0
			9.88
			3.5
			-
			-
		
		
			Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants
			9.83
			3.4
			-
			-
			-
			-
		
		
			Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations
			12.98
			10.2
			12.98
			10.2
			-
			-
		
		
			Protective service occupations
			15.68
			7.7
			15.21
			6.4
			-
			-
		
		
			Food preparation and serving related occupations
			8.29
			9.5
			8.87
			13.9
			7.31
			10.4
		
		
			Cooks
			11.25
			8.8
			10.58
			11.1
			-
			-
		
		
			Food service, tipped
			4.72
			2.3
			4.45
			18.9
			5.00
			13.3
		
		
			Bartenders
			6.18
			1.5
			-
			-
			-
			-
		
		
			Waiters and waitresses
			3.49
			10.7
			-
			-
			3.95
			25.3
		
		
			Fast food and counter workers
			8.35
			4.6
			-
			-
			-
			-
		
		
			Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fastfood
			8.35
			4.6
			-
			-
			-
			-
		
		
			Food servers, nonrestaurant
			8.20
			5.7
			-
			-
			-
			-
		
		
			Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations
			10.17
			1.9
			10.29
			2.8
			-
			-
		
		
			Building cleaning workers
			9.91
			3.2
			10.28
			2.8
			-
			-
		
		
			Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners
			-
			-
			10.46
			5.4
			-
			-
		
		
			Personal care and service occupations
			9.94
			6.3
			10.62
			10.1
			8.68
			2.9
		
		
			Sales and related occupations
			17.04
			25.2
			20.12
			25.9
			8.07
			6.0
		
		
			First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers
			25.43
			28.7
			25.74
			29.8
			-
			-
		
		
			First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers
			17.45
			20.1
			17.58
			21.6
			-
			-
		
		
			Retail sales workers
			9.75
			9.5
			11.15
			4.2
			7.93
			4.3
		
		
			Cashiers, all workers
			8.11
			5.3
			-
			-
			7.68
			3.3
		
		
			Cashiers
			8.11
			5.3
			-
			-
			7.68
			3.3
		
		
			Office and administrative support occupations
			15.96
			4.8
			16.35
			5.0
			10.69
			8.3
		
		
			First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrativesupport workers
			19.68
			2.9
			19.68
			2.9
			-
			-
		
		
			Financial clerks
			12.70
			8.5
			13.22
			9.8
			-
			-
		
		
			Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
			12.86
			6.1
			13.32
			4.7
			-
			-
		
		
			Tellers
			11.21
			0.8
			11.26
			1.9
			-
			-
		
		
			Receptionists and information clerks
			8.95
			6.6
			-
			-
			-
			-
		
		
			Secretaries and administrative assistants
			18.78
			3.7
			18.96
			3.6
			-
			-
		
		
			Executive secretaries and administrative assistants
			20.91
			6.1
			20.91
			6.1
			-
			-
		
		
			Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive
			14.87
			11.1
			14.84
			13.7
			-
			-
		
		
			Office clerks, general
			14.07
			5.9
			14.07
			5.9
			-
			-
		
		
			Construction and extraction occupations
			19.34
			1.1
			19.22
			1.4
			-
			-
		
		
			Electricians
			19.56
			1.0
			19.16
			1.6
			-
			-
		
		
			Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations
			18.95
			7.7
			19.03
			7.7
			-
			-
		
		
			Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers
			16.47
			8.5
			16.47
			8.5
			-
			-
		
		
			Production occupations
			21.56
			31.9
			22.06
			31.9
			-
			-
		
		
			First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers
			35.11
			34.3
			35.11
			34.3
			-
			-
		
		
			Miscellaneous plant and system operators
			29.77
			0.0
			29.77
			0.0
			-
			-
		
		
			Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers
			29.77
			0.0
			29.77
			0.0
			-
			-
		
		
			Miscellaneous production workers
			12.57
			2.5
			12.57
			2.5
			-
			-
		
		
			Transportation and material moving occupations
			16.61
			6.1
			17.53
			4.9
			8.90
			7.8
		
		
			Driver/sales workers and truck drivers
			15.65
			18.6
			16.89
			17.7
			-
			-
		
		
			Driver/sales workers
			14.98
			23.4
			-
			-
			-
			-
		
		
			Sailors and marine oilers
			13.36
			5.0
			13.36
			5.0
			-
			-
		
		
			Laborers and material movers, hand
			11.81
			8.7
			-
			-
			-
			-
		
		
			Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
			11.97
			8.5
			-
			-
			-
			-
		
	

		
			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. For more information see full publication.

				(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. For more information about RSEs see full publication.


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 1. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2), New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA, April 2008
Occupation(3)	Total	Full-time workers	Part-time workers
All workers	$20.79	5.4	$22.23	5.5	$9.30	4.6
Management occupations	43.72	10.5	43.72	10.5	-	-
Engineering managers	65.86	11.7	65.86	11.7	-	-
Business and financial operations occupations	30.00	11.1	30.00	11.1	-	-
Accountants and auditors	30.31	21.0	30.31	21.0	-	-
Computer and mathematical science occupations	27.30	7.8	27.30	7.8	-	-
Architecture and engineering occupations	36.11	12.0	36.11	12.0	-	-
Engineers	38.07	13.1	38.07	13.1	-	-
Life, physical, and social science occupations	36.92	6.6	36.92	6.6	-	-
Community and social services occupations	20.26	14.2	20.17	14.4	-	-
Social workers	20.45	5.1	20.45	5.1	-	-
Education, training, and library occupations	33.40	1.9	34.14	2.7	10.83	29.9
Postsecondary teachers	40.03	7.1	40.88	8.2	-	-
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers	29.65	7.4	29.90	6.6	-	-
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers	36.54	2.4	36.54	2.4	-	-
Elementary and middle school teachers	34.70	1.8	34.70	1.8	-	-
Elementary school teachers, except special education	34.70	1.9	34.70	1.9	-	-
Teacher assistants	16.35	4.2	16.34	4.2	-	-
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations	27.07	3.4	27.24	3.7	22.81	17.2
Registered nurses	32.13	3.1	31.96	3.4	-	-
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians	18.41	3.6	18.41	3.6	-	-
Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians	15.36	7.4	-	-	-	-
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses	19.50	10.1	19.52	10.5	-	-
Healthcare support occupations	18.18	28.0	18.52	28.5	-	-
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides	9.85	4.0	9.88	3.5	-	-
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants	9.83	3.4	-	-	-	-
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations	12.98	10.2	12.98	10.2	-	-
Protective service occupations	15.68	7.7	15.21	6.4	-	-
Food preparation and serving related occupations	8.29	9.5	8.87	13.9	7.31	10.4
Cooks	11.25	8.8	10.58	11.1	-	-
Food service, tipped	4.72	2.3	4.45	18.9	5.00	13.3
Bartenders	6.18	1.5	-	-	-	-
Waiters and waitresses	3.49	10.7	-	-	3.95	25.3
Fast food and counter workers	8.35	4.6	-	-	-	-
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fastfood	8.35	4.6	-	-	-	-
Food servers, nonrestaurant	8.20	5.7	-	-	-	-
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations	10.17	1.9	10.29	2.8	-	-
Building cleaning workers	9.91	3.2	10.28	2.8	-	-
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners	-	-	10.46	5.4	-	-
Personal care and service occupations	9.94	6.3	10.62	10.1	8.68	2.9
Sales and related occupations	17.04	25.2	20.12	25.9	8.07	6.0
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers	25.43	28.7	25.74	29.8	-	-
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers	17.45	20.1	17.58	21.6	-	-
Retail sales workers	9.75	9.5	11.15	4.2	7.93	4.3
Cashiers, all workers	8.11	5.3	-	-	7.68	3.3
Cashiers	8.11	5.3	-	-	7.68	3.3
Office and administrative support occupations	15.96	4.8	16.35	5.0	10.69	8.3
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrativesupport workers	19.68	2.9	19.68	2.9	-	-
Financial clerks	12.70	8.5	13.22	9.8	-	-
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks	12.86	6.1	13.32	4.7	-	-
Tellers	11.21	0.8	11.26	1.9	-	-
Receptionists and information clerks	8.95	6.6	-	-	-	-
Secretaries and administrative assistants	18.78	3.7	18.96	3.6	-	-
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants	20.91	6.1	20.91	6.1	-	-
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive	14.87	11.1	14.84	13.7	-	-
Office clerks, general	14.07	5.9	14.07	5.9	-	-
Construction and extraction occupations	19.34	1.1	19.22	1.4	-	-
Electricians	19.56	1.0	19.16	1.6	-	-
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations	18.95	7.7	19.03	7.7	-	-
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers	16.47	8.5	16.47	8.5	-	-
Production occupations	21.56	31.9	22.06	31.9	-	-
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	35.11	34.3	35.11	34.3	-	-
Miscellaneous plant and system operators	29.77	0.0	29.77	0.0	-	-
Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers	29.77	0.0	29.77	0.0	-	-
Miscellaneous production workers	12.57	2.5	12.57	2.5	-	-
Transportation and material moving occupations	16.61	6.1	17.53	4.9	8.90	7.8
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers	15.65	18.6	16.89	17.7	-	-
Driver/sales workers	14.98	23.4	-	-	-	-
Sailors and marine oilers	13.36	5.0	13.36	5.0	-	-
Laborers and material movers, hand	11.81	8.7	-	-	-	-
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	11.97	8.5	-	-	-	-
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. For more information see full publication. (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. For more information about RSEs see full publication. 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.

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Occupation(3)	Total		Full-time workers		Part-time workers
Occupation(3)	Mean	Relative error(4) (percent)	Mean	Relative error(4) (percent)	Mean	Relative error(4) (percent)
All workers	$20.79	5.4	$22.23	5.5	$9.30	4.6
Management occupations	43.72	10.5	43.72	10.5	-	-
Engineering managers	65.86	11.7	65.86	11.7	-	-
Business and financial operations occupations	30.00	11.1	30.00	11.1	-	-
Accountants and auditors	30.31	21.0	30.31	21.0	-	-
Computer and mathematical science occupations	27.30	7.8	27.30	7.8	-	-
Architecture and engineering occupations	36.11	12.0	36.11	12.0	-	-
Engineers	38.07	13.1	38.07	13.1	-	-
Life, physical, and social science occupations	36.92	6.6	36.92	6.6	-	-
Community and social services occupations	20.26	14.2	20.17	14.4	-	-
Social workers	20.45	5.1	20.45	5.1	-	-
Education, training, and library occupations	33.40	1.9	34.14	2.7	10.83	29.9
Postsecondary teachers	40.03	7.1	40.88	8.2	-	-
Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers	29.65	7.4	29.90	6.6	-	-
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers	36.54	2.4	36.54	2.4	-	-
Elementary and middle school teachers	34.70	1.8	34.70	1.8	-	-
Elementary school teachers, except special education	34.70	1.9	34.70	1.9	-	-
Teacher assistants	16.35	4.2	16.34	4.2	-	-
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations	27.07	3.4	27.24	3.7	22.81	17.2
Registered nurses	32.13	3.1	31.96	3.4	-	-
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians	18.41	3.6	18.41	3.6	-	-
Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians	15.36	7.4	-	-	-	-
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses	19.50	10.1	19.52	10.5	-	-
Healthcare support occupations	18.18	28.0	18.52	28.5	-	-
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides	9.85	4.0	9.88	3.5	-	-
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants	9.83	3.4	-	-	-	-
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations	12.98	10.2	12.98	10.2	-	-
Protective service occupations	15.68	7.7	15.21	6.4	-	-
Food preparation and serving related occupations	8.29	9.5	8.87	13.9	7.31	10.4
Cooks	11.25	8.8	10.58	11.1	-	-
Food service, tipped	4.72	2.3	4.45	18.9	5.00	13.3
Bartenders	6.18	1.5	-	-	-	-
Waiters and waitresses	3.49	10.7	-	-	3.95	25.3
Fast food and counter workers	8.35	4.6	-	-	-	-
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fastfood	8.35	4.6	-	-	-	-
Food servers, nonrestaurant	8.20	5.7	-	-	-	-
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations	10.17	1.9	10.29	2.8	-	-
Building cleaning workers	9.91	3.2	10.28	2.8	-	-
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners	-	-	10.46	5.4	-	-
Personal care and service occupations	9.94	6.3	10.62	10.1	8.68	2.9
Sales and related occupations	17.04	25.2	20.12	25.9	8.07	6.0
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers	25.43	28.7	25.74	29.8	-	-
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers	17.45	20.1	17.58	21.6	-	-
Retail sales workers	9.75	9.5	11.15	4.2	7.93	4.3
Cashiers, all workers	8.11	5.3	-	-	7.68	3.3
Cashiers	8.11	5.3	-	-	7.68	3.3
Office and administrative support occupations	15.96	4.8	16.35	5.0	10.69	8.3
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrativesupport workers	19.68	2.9	19.68	2.9	-	-
Financial clerks	12.70	8.5	13.22	9.8	-	-
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks	12.86	6.1	13.32	4.7	-	-
Tellers	11.21	0.8	11.26	1.9	-	-
Receptionists and information clerks	8.95	6.6	-	-	-	-
Secretaries and administrative assistants	18.78	3.7	18.96	3.6	-	-
Executive secretaries and administrative assistants	20.91	6.1	20.91	6.1	-	-
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive	14.87	11.1	14.84	13.7	-	-
Office clerks, general	14.07	5.9	14.07	5.9	-	-
Construction and extraction occupations	19.34	1.1	19.22	1.4	-	-
Electricians	19.56	1.0	19.16	1.6	-	-
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations	18.95	7.7	19.03	7.7	-	-
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers	16.47	8.5	16.47	8.5	-	-
Production occupations	21.56	31.9	22.06	31.9	-	-
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	35.11	34.3	35.11	34.3	-	-
Miscellaneous plant and system operators	29.77	0.0	29.77	0.0	-	-
Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers	29.77	0.0	29.77	0.0	-	-
Miscellaneous production workers	12.57	2.5	12.57	2.5	-	-
Transportation and material moving occupations	16.61	6.1	17.53	4.9	8.90	7.8
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers	15.65	18.6	16.89	17.7	-	-
Driver/sales workers	14.98	23.4	-	-	-	-
Sailors and marine oilers	13.36	5.0	13.36	5.0	-	-
Laborers and material movers, hand	11.81	8.7	-	-	-	-
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	11.97	8.5	-	-	-	-
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. For more information see full publication. (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. For more information about RSEs see full publication. 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.