NC BL 06/00/2004 Table: Kansas City, MO-KS, Bulletin 3120-62, September 2003 Table 1-1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours by selected characteristics, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2003 Total Private industry State and local government 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) Total................................................................. $18.93 1.8 37.0 $18.65 2.3 36.9 $20.03 1.9 37.3 Worker characteristics:(4) White-collar occupations(5)......................................... 21.51 2.2 37.0 21.34 2.9 37.0 22.01 1.8 36.7 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.06 3.1 36.6 26.56 4.4 36.7 25.19 3.7 36.4 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.79 6.2 41.2 29.02 6.9 41.7 27.60 13.8 38.9 Sales............................................................. 14.44 12.4 31.3 14.45 12.4 31.3 – – – Administrative support............................................ 13.63 1.3 37.5 13.92 1.6 37.8 12.61 1.1 36.5 Blue-collar occupations(5).......................................... 17.37 3.9 38.6 17.40 4.2 38.6 16.90 5.3 38.8 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 21.81 4.9 40.0 22.11 5.3 40.0 19.55 5.1 40.0 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors....................................................... 17.33 3.5 39.2 17.33 3.5 39.2 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 17.12 6.6 38.0 17.38 7.0 38.1 14.03 4.6 35.8 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers..................................................... 12.39 4.5 37.0 12.35 4.7 36.9 13.08 9.5 40.0 Service occupations(5).............................................. 11.64 4.8 34.4 10.03 7.9 32.8 15.10 6.8 38.5 Full time........................................................... 19.72 1.6 40.0 19.56 2.0 40.2 20.31 2.1 39.3 Part time........................................................... 10.92 5.6 20.9 10.59 6.1 21.3 13.87 4.9 17.5 Union............................................................... 20.27 3.0 39.9 20.07 3.8 40.2 20.74 4.8 39.1 Nonunion............................................................ 18.58 2.3 36.3 18.33 2.8 36.2 19.72 3.2 36.5 Time................................................................ 18.74 1.9 36.8 18.38 2.4 36.6 20.03 1.9 37.3 Incentive........................................................... 23.70 9.9 41.8 23.70 9.9 41.8 – – – Establishment characteristics: Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 20.20 2.5 39.6 (6) (6) (6) Service producing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 18.15 2.9 36.1 (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers(7).................................................... 15.70 6.7 35.7 15.70 6.7 35.7 – – – 100-499 workers..................................................... 17.59 3.5 36.6 17.38 3.9 36.4 19.33 6.4 38.3 500 workers or more................................................. 21.31 2.3 37.8 21.97 3.4 38.3 20.21 2.1 37.0 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, and 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 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-producing industries applies to private industry only. 7 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2003 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $18.93 1.8 $18.65 2.3 $20.03 1.9 All excluding sales............................................... 19.25 1.8 19.02 2.2 20.03 1.9 White collar........................................................ 21.51 2.2 21.34 2.9 22.01 1.8 White collar excluding sales.................................... 22.38 2.1 22.52 2.8 22.03 1.8 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.06 3.1 26.56 4.4 25.19 3.7 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.64 3.1 28.68 4.2 26.08 4.3 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 33.66 5.1 33.85 5.5 – – Civil engineers............................................. 36.87 12.2 37.97 13.2 – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 33.12 6.3 33.12 6.3 – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 30.40 5.3 30.67 5.7 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 30.93 8.1 31.19 8.3 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 32.33 8.9 32.72 9.1 – – Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 24.84 5.5 24.84 5.5 – – Natural scientists............................................ 25.90 14.1 34.10 5.1 – – Health related................................................ 26.97 9.2 27.50 11.5 25.15 6.3 Registered nurses........................................... 24.39 2.1 24.65 2.0 23.35 5.8 Respiratory therapists...................................... 20.88 .0 20.88 .0 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 32.47 5.4 28.81 7.9 34.43 4.5 Medical science teachers.................................... 33.64 5.0 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 26.85 4.2 19.87 15.5 27.62 4.3 Prekindergarten and kindergarten............................ 16.28 21.2 – – – – Elementary school teachers.................................. 30.43 5.3 – – 30.38 5.7 Secondary school teachers................................... 29.21 7.7 – – 29.05 8.0 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 25.11 2.6 – – 25.32 2.6 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 28.34 8.2 – – 30.42 7.9 Librarians.................................................. 28.34 8.2 – – 30.42 7.9 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 16.51 6.2 16.21 9.7 16.81 7.1 Social workers.............................................. 15.79 6.0 – – 16.26 7.9 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 22.00 7.9 22.16 8.0 – – Editors and reporters....................................... 24.30 12.9 24.30 12.9 – – Technical....................................................... 18.34 2.9 18.52 3.7 17.76 3.2 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 20.10 8.4 19.20 8.6 – – Radiological technicians.................................... 20.83 1.7 20.87 2.3 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 15.04 1.5 15.52 .9 13.01 11.7 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 14.45 6.3 14.14 7.3 – – Computer programmers........................................ 24.69 7.8 – – – – Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 20.75 8.7 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.79 6.2 29.02 6.9 27.60 13.8 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 32.49 7.1 33.28 7.7 29.95 15.3 Financial managers.......................................... 34.21 6.6 – – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ $36.61 14.0 – – $36.66 14.3 Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments......... 22.11 36.9 $22.11 36.9 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 35.95 8.0 35.93 8.3 – – Management related............................................ 23.91 9.6 24.45 9.7 15.64 5.1 Accountants and auditors.................................... 15.96 6.1 15.96 6.1 – – Other financial officers.................................... 29.48 11.5 29.48 11.5 – – Management analysts......................................... 28.31 17.9 28.37 18.0 – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 18.89 7.2 18.89 7.2 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 20.35 11.8 21.33 14.0 – – Sales............................................................. 14.44 12.4 14.45 12.4 – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 21.29 25.1 21.29 25.1 – – Sales, other business services.............................. 16.92 5.7 16.92 5.7 – – Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 33.21 21.2 33.21 21.2 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 10.72 9.6 10.72 9.6 – – Cashiers.................................................... 8.73 1.9 8.70 1.9 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.63 1.3 13.92 1.6 12.61 1.1 Supervisors, general office................................. 19.70 10.5 – – – – Secretaries................................................. 14.69 5.0 15.67 4.0 13.15 6.0 Receptionists............................................... 10.81 3.6 – – – – Order clerks................................................ 13.54 6.2 13.54 6.2 – – Library clerks.............................................. 8.61 1.9 – – 8.61 1.9 Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 13.59 11.5 14.17 14.1 12.88 17.5 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 13.08 4.2 13.14 4.6 – – Billing clerks.............................................. 15.06 4.6 15.06 4.6 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 14.58 5.5 14.58 5.5 – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 11.79 16.0 11.79 16.0 – – General office clerks....................................... 13.78 3.8 14.62 3.7 12.07 6.6 Data entry keyers........................................... 11.30 2.8 – – – – Teachers' aides............................................. 10.79 .3 – – 10.79 .3 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 13.29 7.0 13.85 7.4 – – Blue collar......................................................... 17.37 3.9 17.40 4.2 16.90 5.3 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 21.81 4.9 22.11 5.3 19.55 5.1 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 23.26 5.2 25.61 9.5 – – Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 17.52 4.0 17.52 4.0 – – Heavy equipment mechanics................................... 17.76 2.3 17.84 2.6 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 19.45 3.8 19.45 3.8 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 22.68 3.2 24.01 3.8 – – Electricians................................................ 28.64 9.3 30.41 5.1 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 24.34 7.1 23.92 8.3 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 17.33 3.5 17.33 3.5 – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 10.52 1.5 10.52 1.5 – – Printing press operators.................................... $18.21 9.4 $18.21 9.4 – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 15.15 13.7 15.15 13.7 – – Assemblers.................................................. 23.09 5.2 23.09 5.2 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 17.12 6.6 17.38 7.0 $14.03 4.6 Truck drivers............................................... 19.23 8.3 19.30 8.3 – – Motor transportation, n.e.c................................. 9.08 4.4 9.08 4.4 – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 15.90 12.6 15.90 12.6 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.39 4.5 12.35 4.7 13.08 9.5 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 10.00 15.4 – – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 11.98 8.4 11.98 8.4 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 12.66 10.8 12.66 10.8 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 12.28 6.9 12.28 6.9 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 11.91 8.7 11.74 9.4 – – Service............................................................. 11.64 4.8 10.03 7.9 15.10 6.8 Protective service............................................ 18.07 2.0 15.90 11.9 19.34 3.8 Firefighting................................................ 17.44 4.4 – – 17.44 4.4 Guards and police, except public service.................... 15.01 10.3 – – – – Food service.................................................. 8.10 4.6 7.99 5.6 8.81 4.5 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.97 12.2 3.92 12.9 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.74 1.4 2.74 1.4 – – Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants............................. 6.71 10.3 6.80 11.0 – – Other food service........................................... 9.94 2.5 10.18 2.6 8.96 4.2 Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 13.52 5.8 13.25 6.1 – – Cooks....................................................... 10.56 3.5 10.92 3.4 – – Food counter, fountain, and related......................... 7.22 4.5 – – – – Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 10.09 5.9 10.15 5.7 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.21 3.6 7.98 5.6 – – Health service................................................ 10.53 4.5 10.57 4.9 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.39 4.9 10.41 5.3 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 11.03 4.9 10.04 2.2 13.01 7.2 Maids and housemen.......................................... 8.75 2.3 8.74 2.4 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 11.20 3.9 10.59 3.5 12.07 5.3 Personal service.............................................. 8.91 4.0 8.82 5.3 9.16 7.5 Early childhood teachers' assistants........................ 8.29 4.4 – – – – Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 9.09 15.2 – – – – Service, n.e.c.............................................. 9.44 7.2 9.44 7.2 – – 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. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2003 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $19.72 1.6 $19.56 2.0 $20.31 2.1 All excluding sales............................................... 19.88 1.8 19.74 2.2 20.32 2.1 White collar........................................................ 22.18 2.0 22.17 2.6 22.22 1.9 White collar excluding sales.................................... 22.67 2.0 22.84 2.7 22.24 1.9 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.40 3.3 27.00 4.5 25.42 4.2 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.98 3.3 29.18 4.2 26.25 5.0 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 33.66 5.1 33.85 5.5 – – Civil engineers............................................. 36.87 12.2 37.97 13.2 – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 33.12 6.3 33.12 6.3 – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 30.40 5.3 30.67 5.7 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 30.93 8.1 31.19 8.3 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 32.33 8.9 32.72 9.1 – – Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 24.84 5.5 24.84 5.5 – – Natural scientists............................................ 25.90 14.1 34.10 5.1 – – Health related................................................ 26.94 10.9 27.79 13.6 24.21 7.4 Registered nurses........................................... 23.66 2.7 23.70 2.9 23.53 7.0 Teachers, college and university.............................. 32.58 5.3 28.95 8.3 34.43 4.5 Medical science teachers.................................... 33.64 5.0 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 27.28 5.0 20.11 16.1 28.08 5.3 Elementary school teachers.................................. 30.43 5.3 – – 30.38 5.7 Secondary school teachers................................... 29.21 7.7 – – 29.05 8.0 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 25.47 3.1 – – 25.64 3.1 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 16.29 6.4 15.70 9.9 16.81 7.1 Social workers.............................................. 15.79 6.0 – – 16.26 7.9 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 23.62 8.5 23.85 8.5 – – Editors and reporters....................................... 26.03 20.7 26.03 20.7 – – Technical....................................................... 18.67 3.1 18.89 3.9 17.91 3.6 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 20.19 8.4 19.31 8.3 – – Radiological technicians.................................... 21.19 1.4 – – – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 15.03 1.7 15.65 1.1 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 15.27 6.4 15.10 7.9 – – Computer programmers........................................ 24.69 7.8 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.99 6.1 29.26 6.8 27.63 13.8 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 32.73 7.1 33.61 7.8 29.98 15.3 Financial managers.......................................... 34.21 6.6 – – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 36.61 14.0 – – 36.66 14.3 Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments......... 22.11 36.9 22.11 36.9 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 35.95 8.0 35.93 8.3 – – Management related............................................ 24.03 9.7 24.59 9.7 15.64 5.1 Other financial officers.................................... $29.48 11.5 $29.48 11.5 – – Management analysts......................................... 28.31 17.9 28.37 18.0 – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 18.89 7.2 18.89 7.2 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 20.40 12.4 21.47 14.5 – – Sales............................................................. 16.88 12.5 16.90 12.5 – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 22.07 25.3 22.07 25.3 – – Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 35.20 18.6 35.20 18.6 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 11.79 10.7 11.79 10.7 – – Cashiers.................................................... 9.41 2.6 9.38 2.6 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.81 1.3 14.12 1.5 $12.72 1.4 Supervisors, general office................................. 19.70 10.5 – – – – Secretaries................................................. 14.79 5.1 15.83 4.0 13.17 6.3 Order clerks................................................ 13.64 6.7 13.64 6.7 – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 13.80 11.3 14.17 14.1 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 13.13 4.0 13.19 4.4 – – Billing clerks.............................................. 15.06 4.6 15.06 4.6 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 15.04 5.1 15.04 5.1 – – General office clerks....................................... 14.17 3.8 15.28 3.0 12.10 7.1 Teachers' aides............................................. 10.74 .5 – – 10.74 .5 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 13.36 7.1 13.85 7.4 – – Blue collar......................................................... 17.77 3.7 17.83 4.0 16.95 5.4 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 21.85 4.9 22.16 5.3 19.55 5.1 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 23.26 5.2 25.61 9.5 – – Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 17.52 4.0 17.52 4.0 – – Heavy equipment mechanics................................... 17.76 2.3 17.84 2.6 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 19.45 3.8 19.45 3.8 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 22.68 3.2 24.01 3.8 – – Electricians................................................ 28.64 9.3 30.41 5.1 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 24.34 7.1 23.92 8.3 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 17.50 3.7 17.50 3.7 – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 10.52 1.5 10.52 1.5 – – Printing press operators.................................... 18.21 9.4 18.21 9.4 – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 15.15 13.7 15.15 13.7 – – Assemblers.................................................. 23.20 4.9 23.20 4.9 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 17.88 5.0 18.22 5.4 14.08 4.8 Truck drivers............................................... 19.25 8.3 19.32 8.3 – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 15.97 12.8 15.97 12.8 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.76 4.4 12.74 4.6 13.08 9.5 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 10.00 15.9 – – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. $13.08 6.4 $13.08 6.4 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 12.85 11.0 12.85 11.0 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 12.47 7.2 12.47 7.2 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 12.00 9.1 11.84 9.9 – – Service............................................................. 12.73 5.8 11.07 9.3 $15.57 7.0 Protective service............................................ 18.65 2.5 – – 19.43 3.6 Firefighting................................................ 17.44 4.4 – – 17.44 4.4 Food service.................................................. 9.39 10.9 9.40 13.0 9.37 3.6 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.76 40.4 3.76 40.4 – – Other food service........................................... 10.53 3.9 10.81 4.7 9.37 3.6 Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 13.52 5.8 13.25 6.1 – – Cooks....................................................... 10.77 4.0 11.16 2.5 – – Health service................................................ 11.01 2.4 11.11 2.5 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.88 2.8 10.97 3.0 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 11.10 5.0 10.09 2.2 13.01 7.2 Maids and housemen.......................................... 8.66 2.9 8.65 3.1 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 11.27 3.9 10.68 3.5 12.07 5.3 Personal service.............................................. 9.42 4.9 9.46 5.9 – – Service, n.e.c.............................................. 9.67 7.8 9.67 7.8 – – 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. 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 2-3. Mean hourly earnings,(1) part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2003 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $10.92 5.6 $10.59 6.1 $13.87 4.9 All excluding sales............................................... 11.53 5.0 11.18 5.7 13.87 4.9 White collar........................................................ 13.61 5.5 13.15 6.0 16.90 7.3 White collar excluding sales.................................... 17.11 4.3 17.16 5.0 16.90 7.3 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 21.18 4.4 21.47 4.8 20.28 10.9 Professional specialty.......................................... 22.80 5.1 23.18 5.0 21.53 14.1 Health related................................................ 27.11 3.6 26.50 4.0 – – Registered nurses........................................... 26.65 1.7 27.31 2.2 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 12.58 12.9 – – 12.57 14.6 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 13.42 13.2 – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 9.58 24.3 9.58 24.3 – – Technical....................................................... 14.22 4.7 13.19 7.3 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 15.04 4.9 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... – – – – – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... – – – – – – Management related............................................ – – – – – – Sales............................................................. 8.72 6.5 8.72 6.5 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 9.02 12.5 9.02 12.5 – – Cashiers.................................................... 7.69 6.1 7.69 6.1 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 10.50 3.8 10.54 4.6 10.33 6.0 Blue collar......................................................... 9.96 7.4 9.90 7.7 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... – – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 8.92 6.6 8.92 6.6 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 7.82 10.2 7.82 10.2 – – Service............................................................. 7.14 6.1 7.00 6.8 8.36 5.8 Protective service............................................ 8.87 6.7 8.24 4.4 – – Food service.................................................. 6.12 4.1 5.91 4.0 7.66 1.2 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 4.08 11.0 4.01 11.0 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.80 14.3 2.80 14.3 – – Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants............................. $5.86 4.0 $5.83 4.6 – – Other food service........................................... 8.34 4.9 8.44 5.9 – – Cooks....................................................... 9.81 2.9 – – – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 7.70 4.5 7.38 5.1 – – Health service................................................ 8.75 10.4 8.75 10.4 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 8.94 8.8 8.94 8.8 – – Personal service.............................................. 7.89 8.2 7.82 9.8 – – 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. 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2003 Total Private industry State and local government Weekly earnings Weekly earnings Weekly earnings Occupation(3) Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All................................................................... $789 1.7 40.0 $786 2.1 40.2 $799 2.2 39.3 All excluding sales............................................... 795 1.8 40.0 794 2.3 40.2 799 2.2 39.3 White collar........................................................ 883 2.1 39.8 892 2.7 40.2 859 1.9 38.6 White collar excluding sales.................................... 902 2.2 39.8 920 2.9 40.3 859 1.9 38.6 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 1,035 3.6 39.2 1,071 4.7 39.7 978 5.1 38.5 Professional specialty.......................................... 1,094 3.6 39.1 1,157 4.4 39.7 1,006 5.9 38.3 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 1,350 5.3 40.1 1,358 5.7 40.1 – – – Civil engineers............................................. 1,475 12.2 40.0 1,519 13.2 40.0 – – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 1,325 6.3 40.0 1,325 6.3 40.0 – – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 1,226 6.0 40.3 1,237 6.5 40.3 – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 1,246 8.1 40.3 1,256 8.3 40.3 – – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 1,304 8.8 40.3 1,320 9.0 40.3 – – – Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 993 5.5 40.0 993 5.5 40.0 – – – Natural scientists............................................ 1,019 13.1 39.3 1,320 4.5 38.7 – – – Health related................................................ 1,046 12.3 38.8 1,079 15.5 38.8 942 7.3 38.9 Registered nurses........................................... 900 2.6 38.1 897 2.8 37.9 911 7.3 38.7 Teachers, college and university.............................. 1,277 5.4 39.2 1,125 4.0 38.9 1,356 6.0 39.4 Medical science teachers.................................... 1,309 5.8 38.9 – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 1,029 6.5 37.7 787 17.7 39.1 1,055 7.0 37.6 Elementary school teachers.................................. 1,165 6.5 38.3 – – – 1,162 7.0 38.2 Secondary school teachers................................... 1,109 8.9 38.0 – – – 1,101 9.2 37.9 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 936 5.1 36.7 – – – 939 5.2 36.6 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 643 5.5 39.5 617 7.4 39.3 665 6.8 39.6 Social workers.............................................. 625 5.3 39.6 – – – 642 7.4 39.5 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 945 8.5 40.0 954 8.5 40.0 – – – Editors and reporters....................................... 1,041 20.7 40.0 1,041 20.7 40.0 – – – Technical....................................................... 742 3.1 39.8 749 3.9 39.7 719 3.7 40.1 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 801 8.0 39.7 764 7.5 39.6 – – – Radiological technicians.................................... 819 4.2 38.6 – – – – – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 589 2.3 39.2 613 2.2 39.2 – – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 623 7.4 40.8 601 8.0 39.8 – – – Computer programmers........................................ 988 7.8 40.0 – – – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 1,207 6.7 41.6 1,230 7.5 42.0 1,101 13.9 39.8 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 1,396 8.9 42.6 1,466 10.2 43.6 1,194 15.2 39.8 Financial managers.......................................... 1,381 6.1 40.4 – – – – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ $1,464 14.0 40.0 – – – $1,466 14.3 40.0 Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments......... 946 30.9 42.8 $946 30.9 42.8 – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 1,628 12.5 45.3 1,635 13.0 45.5 – – – Management related............................................ 970 9.0 40.4 994 9.0 40.4 626 5.1 40.0 Other financial officers.................................... 1,154 10.2 39.1 1,154 10.2 39.1 – – – Management analysts......................................... 1,217 15.4 43.0 1,220 15.4 43.0 – – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 759 7.1 40.2 759 7.1 40.2 – – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 816 12.4 40.0 859 14.5 40.0 – – – Sales............................................................. 676 12.2 40.1 677 12.3 40.1 – – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 883 25.3 40.0 883 25.3 40.0 – – – Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 1,408 18.6 40.0 1,408 18.6 40.0 – – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 462 9.6 39.2 462 9.6 39.2 – – – Cashiers.................................................... 374 2.9 39.7 373 2.9 39.7 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 545 1.4 39.5 561 1.4 39.8 489 3.0 38.4 Supervisors, general office................................. 812 12.2 41.2 – – – – – – Secretaries................................................. 582 4.6 39.3 622 3.4 39.3 519 6.2 39.4 Order clerks................................................ 552 7.3 40.5 552 7.3 40.5 – – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 550 11.4 39.9 564 14.3 39.8 – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 521 4.1 39.7 524 4.4 39.7 – – – Billing clerks.............................................. 602 4.6 40.0 602 4.6 40.0 – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 602 5.1 40.0 602 5.1 40.0 – – – General office clerks....................................... 559 3.3 39.5 601 2.2 39.3 480 7.0 39.7 Teachers' aides............................................. 369 2.0 34.3 – – – 369 2.0 34.3 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 528 7.6 39.5 546 8.0 39.4 – – – Blue collar......................................................... 714 3.9 40.2 717 4.2 40.2 666 6.2 39.3 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 877 5.0 40.1 890 5.4 40.1 782 5.1 40.0 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 965 4.9 41.5 1,106 6.0 43.2 – – – Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 701 4.0 40.0 701 4.0 40.0 – – – Heavy equipment mechanics................................... 711 2.3 40.0 713 2.6 40.0 – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 778 3.8 40.0 778 3.8 40.0 – – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 907 3.2 40.0 961 3.8 40.0 – – – Electricians................................................ 1,146 9.3 40.0 1,216 5.1 40.0 – – – Supervisors, production..................................... 985 5.9 40.5 969 6.9 40.5 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 696 3.4 39.8 696 3.4 39.8 – – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 421 1.5 40.0 421 1.5 40.0 – – – Printing press operators.................................... 692 8.0 38.0 692 8.0 38.0 – – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 603 13.4 39.8 603 13.4 39.8 – – – Assemblers.................................................. $928 4.9 40.0 $928 4.9 40.0 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 742 6.0 41.5 764 6.3 41.9 $525 7.9 37.3 Truck drivers............................................... 846 9.9 44.0 850 9.9 44.0 – – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 626 14.1 39.2 626 14.1 39.2 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 507 4.7 39.8 506 4.9 39.7 523 9.5 40.0 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 400 15.9 40.0 – – – – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 523 6.4 40.0 523 6.4 40.0 – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 494 13.6 38.5 494 13.6 38.5 – – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 499 7.2 40.0 499 7.2 40.0 – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 498 10.9 41.5 494 12.3 41.7 – – – Service............................................................. 515 6.0 40.4 441 9.6 39.8 647 7.1 41.6 Protective service............................................ 798 4.3 42.8 – – – 853 6.1 43.9 Firefighting................................................ 874 3.1 50.1 – – – 874 3.1 50.1 Food service.................................................. 371 10.9 39.5 376 13.2 40.1 347 2.9 37.0 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 150 40.2 39.9 150 40.2 39.9 – – – Other food service........................................... 416 4.3 39.5 433 4.9 40.1 347 2.9 37.0 Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 537 6.2 39.7 537 7.5 40.6 – – – Cooks....................................................... 427 4.1 39.6 447 2.5 40.0 – – – Health service................................................ 424 3.1 38.5 427 3.4 38.5 – – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 418 3.8 38.4 421 4.2 38.4 – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 443 5.0 40.0 403 2.2 39.9 521 7.2 40.0 Maids and housemen.......................................... 345 3.1 39.8 344 3.3 39.8 – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 451 3.9 40.0 427 3.5 40.0 483 5.3 40.0 Personal service.............................................. 374 4.5 39.7 374 5.4 39.5 – – – Service, n.e.c.............................................. 379 8.1 39.2 379 8.1 39.2 – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time weekly 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. 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. 5 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2003 Total Private industry State and local government Annual earnings Annual earnings Annual earnings Occupation(3) Mean Mean Mean annual annual annual Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All................................................................... $39,825 1.7 2,019 $40,745 2.1 2,083 $36,963 2.2 1,820 All excluding sales............................................... 40,064 1.8 2,016 41,124 2.3 2,083 36,975 2.2 1,820 White collar........................................................ 44,008 2.1 1,984 46,272 2.7 2,087 38,540 1.9 1,734 White collar excluding sales.................................... 44,779 2.2 1,975 47,680 2.9 2,088 38,557 1.9 1,734 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 49,494 3.6 1,875 55,262 4.7 2,047 41,886 5.1 1,648 Professional specialty.......................................... 51,468 3.6 1,840 59,596 4.4 2,042 42,273 5.9 1,610 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 70,226 5.3 2,087 70,635 5.7 2,087 – – – Civil engineers............................................. 76,699 12.2 2,080 78,983 13.2 2,080 – – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 68,883 6.3 2,080 68,883 6.3 2,080 – – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 63,736 6.0 2,097 64,316 6.5 2,097 – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 64,777 8.1 2,094 65,338 8.3 2,095 – – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 67,814 8.8 2,097 68,650 9.0 2,098 – – – Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 51,658 5.5 2,080 51,658 5.5 2,080 – – – Natural scientists............................................ 52,969 13.1 2,046 68,637 4.5 2,013 – – – Health related................................................ 53,646 12.3 1,991 56,089 15.5 2,018 46,274 7.3 1,911 Registered nurses........................................... 46,496 2.6 1,965 46,662 2.8 1,969 45,930 7.3 1,952 Teachers, college and university.............................. 61,606 5.4 1,891 54,955 4.0 1,898 64,981 6.0 1,887 Medical science teachers.................................... 67,248 5.8 1,999 – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 39,920 6.5 1,463 34,897 17.7 1,735 40,383 7.0 1,438 Elementary school teachers.................................. 43,619 6.5 1,434 – – – 43,641 7.0 1,436 Secondary school teachers................................... 40,882 8.9 1,400 – – – 40,675 9.2 1,400 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 35,855 5.1 1,408 – – – 35,797 5.2 1,396 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 32,555 5.5 1,998 32,099 7.4 2,045 32,930 6.8 1,959 Social workers.............................................. 31,516 5.3 1,996 – – – 31,633 7.4 1,945 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 49,139 8.5 2,080 49,607 8.5 2,080 – – – Editors and reporters....................................... 54,132 20.7 2,080 54,132 20.7 2,080 – – – Technical....................................................... 38,604 3.1 2,068 38,957 3.9 2,062 37,365 3.7 2,086 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 41,653 8.0 2,063 39,741 7.5 2,058 – – – Radiological technicians.................................... 42,582 4.2 2,009 – – – – – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 30,650 2.3 2,039 31,902 2.2 2,038 – – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 32,418 7.4 2,122 31,271 8.0 2,071 – – – Computer programmers........................................ 51,351 7.8 2,080 – – – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 62,434 6.7 2,153 63,903 7.5 2,184 55,587 13.9 2,012 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 71,873 8.9 2,196 76,184 10.2 2,267 59,946 15.2 1,999 Financial managers.......................................... 71,796 6.1 2,099 – – – – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ $73,160 14.0 1,999 – – – $73,560 14.3 2,007 Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments......... 49,180 30.9 2,224 $49,180 30.9 2,224 – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 84,657 12.5 2,355 85,020 13.0 2,366 – – – Management related............................................ 50,442 9.0 2,099 51,662 9.0 2,101 32,527 5.1 2,080 Other financial officers.................................... 59,997 10.2 2,035 59,997 10.2 2,035 – – – Management analysts......................................... 63,260 15.4 2,235 63,420 15.4 2,236 – – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 39,475 7.1 2,090 39,475 7.1 2,090 – – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 42,439 12.4 2,080 44,655 14.5 2,080 – – – Sales............................................................. 35,155 12.2 2,083 35,204 12.3 2,083 – – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 45,909 25.3 2,080 45,909 25.3 2,080 – – – Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 73,212 18.6 2,080 73,212 18.6 2,080 – – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 24,033 9.6 2,038 24,033 9.6 2,038 – – – Cashiers.................................................... 19,436 2.9 2,065 19,375 2.9 2,065 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 27,709 1.4 2,007 29,186 1.4 2,067 23,181 3.0 1,822 Supervisors, general office................................. 42,209 12.2 2,143 – – – – – – Secretaries................................................. 29,811 4.6 2,015 32,347 3.4 2,043 26,005 6.2 1,974 Order clerks................................................ 28,709 7.3 2,104 28,709 7.3 2,104 – – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 28,598 11.4 2,073 29,304 14.3 2,068 – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 27,110 4.1 2,065 27,232 4.4 2,064 – – – Billing clerks.............................................. 31,323 4.6 2,080 31,323 4.6 2,080 – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 31,288 5.1 2,080 31,288 5.1 2,080 – – – General office clerks....................................... 29,077 3.3 2,052 31,263 2.2 2,046 24,969 7.0 2,063 Teachers' aides............................................. 14,191 2.0 1,322 – – – 14,191 2.0 1,322 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 27,471 7.6 2,056 28,398 8.0 2,051 – – – Blue collar......................................................... 36,878 3.9 2,075 37,104 4.2 2,081 33,644 6.2 1,985 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 45,281 5.0 2,072 45,892 5.4 2,071 40,664 5.1 2,080 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 50,198 4.9 2,158 57,510 6.0 2,245 – – – Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 36,445 4.0 2,080 36,445 4.0 2,080 – – – Heavy equipment mechanics................................... 36,950 2.3 2,080 37,099 2.6 2,080 – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 40,451 3.8 2,080 40,451 3.8 2,080 – – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 47,168 3.2 2,080 49,948 3.8 2,080 – – – Electricians................................................ 59,568 9.3 2,080 63,255 5.1 2,080 – – – Supervisors, production..................................... 51,218 5.9 2,104 50,385 6.9 2,106 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 36,177 3.4 2,067 36,177 3.4 2,067 – – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 21,891 1.5 2,080 21,891 1.5 2,080 – – – Printing press operators.................................... 35,997 8.0 1,977 35,997 8.0 1,977 – – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 31,348 13.4 2,069 31,348 13.4 2,069 – – – Assemblers.................................................. $48,246 4.9 2,080 $48,246 4.9 2,080 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 38,169 6.0 2,135 39,750 6.3 2,181 $24,400 7.9 1,734 Truck drivers............................................... 44,016 9.9 2,287 44,212 9.9 2,289 – – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 32,539 14.1 2,038 32,539 14.1 2,038 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 26,065 4.7 2,042 26,001 4.9 2,040 27,217 9.5 2,080 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 20,802 15.9 2,080 – – – – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 27,204 6.4 2,080 27,204 6.4 2,080 – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 25,691 13.6 1,999 25,691 13.6 1,999 – – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 25,938 7.2 2,080 25,938 7.2 2,080 – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 25,901 10.9 2,158 25,684 12.3 2,170 – – – Service............................................................. 26,374 6.0 2,072 22,902 9.6 2,068 32,344 7.1 2,078 Protective service............................................ 40,499 4.3 2,171 – – – 42,751 6.1 2,200 Firefighting................................................ 45,470 3.1 2,607 – – – 45,470 3.1 2,607 Food service.................................................. 18,639 10.9 1,984 19,573 13.2 2,083 14,886 2.9 1,589 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 7,804 40.2 2,077 7,804 40.2 2,077 – – – Other food service........................................... 20,713 4.3 1,967 22,528 4.9 2,084 14,886 2.9 1,589 Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 26,230 6.2 1,940 27,938 7.5 2,109 – – – Cooks....................................................... 21,941 4.1 2,037 23,222 2.5 2,080 – – – Health service................................................ 22,056 3.1 2,004 22,223 3.4 2,001 – – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 21,739 3.8 1,999 21,880 4.2 1,995 – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 23,013 5.0 2,074 20,949 2.2 2,076 26,930 7.2 2,070 Maids and housemen.......................................... 17,928 3.1 2,069 17,893 3.3 2,069 – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 23,381 3.9 2,075 22,214 3.5 2,080 24,970 5.3 2,069 Personal service.............................................. 19,360 4.5 2,056 19,333 5.4 2,045 – – – Service, n.e.c.............................................. 19,449 8.1 2,012 19,449 8.1 2,012 – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time annual 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. 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. 5 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-1. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) all workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2003 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $18.93 1.8 $18.65 2.3 $20.03 1.9 All excluding sales............................................... 19.25 1.8 19.02 2.2 20.03 1.9 White collar........................................................ 21.51 2.2 21.34 2.9 22.01 1.8 1....................................................... 8.53 5.4 8.11 3.0 – – 2....................................................... 10.29 4.0 10.38 4.4 9.58 1.3 3....................................................... 11.37 3.0 11.37 3.5 11.37 3.1 4....................................................... 13.10 2.0 13.48 2.2 11.72 1.9 5....................................................... 16.57 9.9 17.21 10.9 12.57 2.4 6....................................................... 16.64 2.6 17.04 3.2 15.13 2.2 7....................................................... 20.34 3.3 18.98 3.1 22.89 6.9 8....................................................... 24.85 2.1 24.59 3.6 25.19 2.0 9....................................................... 25.25 3.0 24.95 2.0 25.78 7.0 10........................................................ 30.38 6.8 32.55 5.9 – – 11........................................................ 35.22 3.2 36.33 2.6 29.20 12.0 12........................................................ 40.32 7.2 41.55 3.9 37.21 22.9 13........................................................ 39.25 10.6 44.65 5.6 – – 14........................................................ 52.97 4.1 55.62 2.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.04 4.8 18.84 5.0 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 22.38 2.1 22.52 2.8 22.03 1.8 1....................................................... 9.77 8.8 9.01 8.7 – – 2....................................................... 11.02 5.1 11.25 5.6 9.58 1.3 3....................................................... 12.10 2.7 12.31 3.3 11.37 3.2 4....................................................... 13.11 2.1 13.53 2.3 11.72 1.9 5....................................................... 14.53 2.4 14.94 2.6 12.57 2.4 6....................................................... 16.56 2.7 16.97 3.3 15.13 2.2 7....................................................... 20.30 3.6 18.72 3.9 22.89 6.9 8....................................................... 24.63 2.2 24.19 3.8 25.19 2.0 9....................................................... 25.36 3.1 25.12 2.5 25.78 7.0 10........................................................ 30.08 7.1 32.29 6.2 – – 11........................................................ 35.22 3.2 36.33 2.6 29.20 12.0 12........................................................ 40.30 7.2 41.54 3.9 37.21 22.9 13........................................................ 39.25 10.6 44.65 5.6 – – 14........................................................ 52.97 4.1 55.62 2.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.21 6.8 23.16 7.2 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.06 3.1 26.56 4.4 25.19 3.7 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.64 3.1 28.68 4.2 26.08 4.3 5....................................................... 13.11 12.1 13.16 14.0 – – 6....................................................... 18.07 8.4 19.06 10.0 – – 7....................................................... 22.61 6.1 20.31 6.7 24.65 11.2 8....................................................... 25.72 2.3 24.54 4.8 26.73 1.8 9....................................................... 26.43 3.4 25.96 1.8 27.03 6.8 10........................................................ 27.55 7.2 29.62 5.6 – – 11........................................................ 33.46 3.6 34.88 1.9 26.12 17.9 12........................................................ 37.00 5.7 39.28 3.3 – – 13........................................................ $40.17 14.8 $48.27 3.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.46 21.8 25.54 24.4 – – Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 33.66 5.1 33.85 5.5 – – 9....................................................... 28.10 2.5 28.88 2.6 – – 10........................................................ 31.22 6.8 31.22 6.8 – – 11........................................................ 35.04 5.0 35.04 5.0 – – 12........................................................ 40.18 2.2 40.21 2.6 – – Civil engineers............................................. 36.87 12.2 37.97 13.2 – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 33.12 6.3 33.12 6.3 – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 30.40 5.3 30.67 5.7 – – 11........................................................ 33.43 3.4 33.43 3.4 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 30.93 8.1 31.19 8.3 – – 8....................................................... 25.13 11.3 25.13 11.3 – – 9....................................................... 25.62 3.6 26.14 3.3 – – 11........................................................ 34.70 2.9 34.70 2.9 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 32.33 8.9 32.72 9.1 – – 9....................................................... 25.45 3.9 26.02 3.7 – – 11........................................................ 35.59 2.1 35.59 2.1 – – Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 24.84 5.5 24.84 5.5 – – Natural scientists............................................ 25.90 14.1 34.10 5.1 – – Health related................................................ 26.97 9.2 27.50 11.5 $25.15 6.3 7....................................................... 19.98 1.8 20.01 2.0 – – 8....................................................... 24.76 5.2 25.01 5.5 – – 9....................................................... 24.73 3.1 24.57 2.1 25.05 8.7 Registered nurses........................................... 24.39 2.1 24.65 2.0 23.35 5.8 7....................................................... 20.68 1.2 20.95 1.7 – – 8....................................................... 24.86 5.2 25.15 5.4 – – 9....................................................... 24.14 1.9 24.71 1.5 22.76 2.2 Respiratory therapists...................................... 20.88 .0 20.88 .0 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 32.47 5.4 28.81 7.9 34.43 4.5 Medical science teachers.................................... 33.64 5.0 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 26.85 4.2 19.87 15.5 27.62 4.3 7....................................................... 24.12 9.6 16.55 22.6 25.78 11.7 8....................................................... 28.53 .6 – – 28.34 .3 9....................................................... 31.16 2.7 – – 31.26 2.7 Prekindergarten and kindergarten............................ 16.28 21.2 – – – – Elementary school teachers.................................. 30.43 5.3 – – 30.38 5.7 8....................................................... 28.34 2.7 – – – – 9....................................................... 34.16 1.6 – – – – Secondary school teachers................................... 29.21 7.7 – – 29.05 8.0 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 25.11 2.6 – – 25.32 2.6 7....................................................... 25.00 5.8 – – 25.45 6.1 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 28.34 8.2 – – 30.42 7.9 Librarians.................................................. 28.34 8.2 – – 30.42 7.9 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 16.51 6.2 16.21 9.7 16.81 7.1 Social workers.............................................. $15.79 6.0 – – $16.26 7.9 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 22.00 7.9 $22.16 8.0 – – 9....................................................... 25.38 9.7 25.38 9.7 – – 11........................................................ 34.26 5.6 34.26 5.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.98 33.2 15.98 33.2 – – Editors and reporters....................................... 24.30 12.9 24.30 12.9 – – Technical....................................................... 18.34 2.9 18.52 3.7 17.76 3.2 4....................................................... 12.52 6.9 13.19 8.1 – – 5....................................................... 14.75 3.8 15.09 4.2 – – 6....................................................... 16.82 2.8 17.00 3.3 – – 7....................................................... 19.87 6.2 20.03 9.8 19.56 4.9 8....................................................... 20.58 5.0 – – – – 9....................................................... 23.40 7.8 24.47 10.3 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 20.10 8.4 19.20 8.6 – – Radiological technicians.................................... 20.83 1.7 20.87 2.3 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 15.04 1.5 15.52 .9 13.01 11.7 5....................................................... 14.56 .9 14.56 .9 – – 6....................................................... 15.94 .7 15.89 .7 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 14.45 6.3 14.14 7.3 – – Computer programmers........................................ 24.69 7.8 – – – – Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 20.75 8.7 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.79 6.2 29.02 6.9 27.60 13.8 5....................................................... 14.82 3.4 14.82 3.4 – – 7....................................................... 17.92 4.3 17.73 3.3 – – 8....................................................... 23.65 7.8 24.84 8.8 – – 9....................................................... 23.63 5.3 24.49 5.0 – – 10........................................................ 32.82 11.4 34.95 9.8 – – 11........................................................ 36.97 4.1 37.89 3.7 – – 12........................................................ 45.29 10.6 45.77 8.1 – – 13........................................................ 37.00 5.4 37.09 6.9 – – 14........................................................ 51.87 4.5 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 26.86 17.4 26.99 17.7 – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 32.49 7.1 33.28 7.7 29.95 15.3 8....................................................... 21.74 5.2 23.33 7.5 – – 9....................................................... 26.23 10.2 27.10 10.6 – – 10........................................................ 33.34 25.1 40.97 17.4 – – 11........................................................ 36.37 5.5 37.69 5.2 – – 12........................................................ 45.29 10.6 45.77 8.1 – – 13........................................................ 37.00 5.4 37.09 6.9 – – 14........................................................ 51.87 4.5 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 26.77 18.7 26.92 19.1 – – Financial managers.......................................... 34.21 6.6 – – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 36.61 14.0 – – 36.66 14.3 Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments......... $22.11 36.9 $22.11 36.9 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 35.95 8.0 35.93 8.3 – – 9....................................................... 30.59 9.5 28.99 9.7 – – 11........................................................ 40.06 5.5 40.06 5.5 – – 12........................................................ 50.33 9.5 50.33 9.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.83 7.1 21.83 7.1 – – Management related............................................ 23.91 9.6 24.45 9.7 $15.64 5.1 5....................................................... 14.25 2.4 14.25 2.4 – – 7....................................................... 17.65 3.5 17.98 3.4 – – 8....................................................... 25.72 12.4 25.74 12.5 – – 9....................................................... 21.80 6.1 22.98 4.6 – – 10........................................................ 32.50 10.0 32.50 10.0 – – 11........................................................ 38.16 5.6 38.21 5.6 – – Accountants and auditors.................................... 15.96 6.1 15.96 6.1 – – Other financial officers.................................... 29.48 11.5 29.48 11.5 – – Management analysts......................................... 28.31 17.9 28.37 18.0 – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 18.89 7.2 18.89 7.2 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 20.35 11.8 21.33 14.0 – – 7....................................................... 17.72 5.5 – – – – Sales............................................................. 14.44 12.4 14.45 12.4 – – 1....................................................... 7.78 2.8 7.78 2.8 – – 2....................................................... 8.00 9.1 8.00 9.1 – – 3....................................................... 9.16 3.8 9.13 3.9 – – 4....................................................... 13.05 8.5 13.05 8.5 – – 5....................................................... 24.50 27.1 24.50 27.1 – – 7....................................................... 20.85 6.3 20.85 6.3 – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 21.29 25.1 21.29 25.1 – – Sales, other business services.............................. 16.92 5.7 16.92 5.7 – – Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 33.21 21.2 33.21 21.2 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 10.72 9.6 10.72 9.6 – – Cashiers.................................................... 8.73 1.9 8.70 1.9 – – 1....................................................... 8.19 3.7 8.19 3.7 – – 2....................................................... 8.05 8.5 8.05 8.5 – – 3....................................................... 7.99 3.6 7.83 3.6 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.63 1.3 13.92 1.6 12.61 1.1 1....................................................... 9.77 8.8 9.01 8.7 – – 2....................................................... 11.05 4.9 11.29 5.4 9.58 1.3 3....................................................... 12.14 2.7 12.38 3.3 11.37 3.2 4....................................................... 13.21 2.2 13.58 2.4 11.91 1.9 5....................................................... 14.49 3.1 15.20 3.1 12.41 3.2 6....................................................... 15.86 3.2 16.19 4.4 15.06 4.0 7....................................................... 16.05 6.2 16.21 6.9 – – 9....................................................... 21.64 4.4 21.64 4.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 12.81 6.2 12.81 6.2 – – Supervisors, general office................................. $19.70 10.5 – – – – Secretaries................................................. 14.69 5.0 $15.67 4.0 $13.15 6.0 4....................................................... 12.89 3.6 13.30 3.0 – – 5....................................................... 16.10 5.5 17.22 3.0 – – Receptionists............................................... 10.81 3.6 – – – – Order clerks................................................ 13.54 6.2 13.54 6.2 – – 4....................................................... 15.17 9.9 15.17 9.9 – – Library clerks.............................................. 8.61 1.9 – – 8.61 1.9 Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 13.59 11.5 14.17 14.1 12.88 17.5 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 13.08 4.2 13.14 4.6 – – 4....................................................... 12.98 5.0 12.98 5.0 – – Billing clerks.............................................. 15.06 4.6 15.06 4.6 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 14.58 5.5 14.58 5.5 – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 11.79 16.0 11.79 16.0 – – General office clerks....................................... 13.78 3.8 14.62 3.7 12.07 6.6 3....................................................... 12.10 9.4 – – – – 4....................................................... 14.44 6.6 14.88 7.1 – – 5....................................................... 13.19 7.2 15.38 4.1 – – Data entry keyers........................................... 11.30 2.8 – – – – Teachers' aides............................................. 10.79 .3 – – 10.79 .3 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 13.29 7.0 13.85 7.4 – – 4....................................................... 12.28 10.1 – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 17.37 3.9 17.40 4.2 16.90 5.3 1....................................................... 10.23 6.2 10.23 6.2 – – 2....................................................... 10.90 3.5 10.90 3.5 – – 3....................................................... 17.61 3.7 17.96 4.0 12.27 6.5 4....................................................... 14.53 7.5 14.46 7.7 – – 5....................................................... 16.89 4.5 17.08 4.8 15.07 3.2 6....................................................... 18.51 4.5 18.82 4.8 – – 7....................................................... 21.77 3.7 22.00 3.8 19.34 5.5 8....................................................... 24.02 7.2 24.02 7.2 – – 9....................................................... 29.75 4.9 30.28 5.1 – – 10........................................................ 33.57 1.6 – – – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 21.81 4.9 22.11 5.3 19.55 5.1 5....................................................... 18.35 4.2 18.78 4.7 – – 6....................................................... 17.94 4.0 18.29 5.1 – – 7....................................................... 22.15 4.6 22.52 5.0 19.34 5.5 8....................................................... 24.17 6.9 24.17 6.9 – – 9....................................................... 29.45 5.2 30.04 5.4 – – 10........................................................ 33.57 1.6 – – – – Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 23.26 5.2 25.61 9.5 – – Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 17.52 4.0 17.52 4.0 – – Heavy equipment mechanics................................... 17.76 2.3 17.84 2.6 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 19.45 3.8 19.45 3.8 – – 7....................................................... $19.34 4.4 $19.34 4.4 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 22.68 3.2 24.01 3.8 – – Electricians................................................ 28.64 9.3 30.41 5.1 – – 7....................................................... 24.75 13.3 – – – – Supervisors, production..................................... 24.34 7.1 23.92 8.3 – – 7....................................................... 22.97 12.7 22.97 12.7 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 17.33 3.5 17.33 3.5 – – 2....................................................... 10.42 4.3 10.42 4.3 – – 3....................................................... 19.57 6.3 19.57 6.3 – – 4....................................................... 14.30 14.1 14.30 14.1 – – 5....................................................... 14.70 2.1 14.70 2.1 – – 6....................................................... 17.33 2.8 17.33 2.8 – – 7....................................................... 18.63 5.8 18.63 5.8 – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 10.52 1.5 10.52 1.5 – – Printing press operators.................................... 18.21 9.4 18.21 9.4 – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 15.15 13.7 15.15 13.7 – – Assemblers.................................................. 23.09 5.2 23.09 5.2 – – 3....................................................... 24.24 4.6 24.24 4.6 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 17.12 6.6 17.38 7.0 $14.03 4.6 2....................................................... 9.44 12.4 9.44 12.4 – – 3....................................................... 14.47 14.8 15.57 19.4 – – 5....................................................... 18.05 7.2 18.50 6.5 – – 6....................................................... 20.47 12.0 20.47 12.0 – – 7....................................................... 22.68 3.7 22.68 3.7 – – Truck drivers............................................... 19.23 8.3 19.30 8.3 – – 4....................................................... 17.35 5.1 17.35 5.1 – – 6....................................................... 20.91 12.7 20.91 12.7 – – Motor transportation, n.e.c................................. 9.08 4.4 9.08 4.4 – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 15.90 12.6 15.90 12.6 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.39 4.5 12.35 4.7 13.08 9.5 1....................................................... 10.36 8.0 10.36 8.0 – – 2....................................................... 11.31 6.2 11.31 6.2 – – 3....................................................... 14.09 7.4 14.38 8.3 – – 4....................................................... 14.92 9.1 15.07 9.1 – – 5....................................................... 15.04 3.9 14.99 4.7 – – Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 10.00 15.4 – – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 11.98 8.4 11.98 8.4 – – 1....................................................... 7.82 17.0 7.82 17.0 – – 2....................................................... 11.61 10.9 11.61 10.9 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 12.66 10.8 12.66 10.8 – – 3....................................................... 15.14 18.2 15.14 18.2 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 12.28 6.9 12.28 6.9 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 11.91 8.7 11.74 9.4 – – Service............................................................. $11.64 4.8 $10.03 7.9 $15.10 6.8 1....................................................... 8.12 6.2 7.43 5.6 10.28 4.6 2....................................................... 8.41 4.5 8.21 5.7 9.32 1.6 3....................................................... 9.18 3.7 8.65 5.7 10.26 7.8 4....................................................... 10.87 5.8 10.60 5.8 – – 5....................................................... 15.82 5.5 – – 14.41 2.3 6....................................................... 12.95 6.4 11.16 3.1 – – 7....................................................... 16.04 3.2 – – – – 8....................................................... 19.75 8.7 – – 19.73 9.0 9....................................................... 22.94 1.7 – – 22.94 1.7 Not able to be leveled.................................... 11.05 10.2 11.05 10.2 – – Protective service............................................ 18.07 2.0 15.90 11.9 19.34 3.8 8....................................................... 18.70 8.7 – – 18.70 8.7 9....................................................... 22.94 1.7 – – 22.94 1.7 Firefighting................................................ 17.44 4.4 – – 17.44 4.4 Guards and police, except public service.................... 15.01 10.3 – – – – Food service.................................................. 8.10 4.6 7.99 5.6 8.81 4.5 1....................................................... 6.89 7.4 6.65 8.8 8.13 4.6 2....................................................... 7.05 12.9 6.90 15.6 – – 3....................................................... 7.49 13.6 7.25 17.1 – – 4....................................................... 11.20 7.8 11.22 8.1 – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.97 12.2 3.92 12.9 – – 1....................................................... 4.87 18.8 4.87 18.8 – – 2....................................................... 3.26 27.6 2.90 27.3 – – 3....................................................... 2.85 20.2 2.85 20.2 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.74 1.4 2.74 1.4 – – 1....................................................... 3.53 22.1 3.53 22.1 – – 2....................................................... 2.82 24.0 2.82 24.0 – – Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants............................. 6.71 10.3 6.80 11.0 – – 1....................................................... 6.42 2.5 6.42 2.5 – – Other food service........................................... 9.94 2.5 10.18 2.6 8.96 4.2 1....................................................... 8.03 3.4 7.99 4.8 8.13 4.6 2....................................................... 8.56 2.6 8.69 3.0 – – 3....................................................... 11.01 6.8 11.68 5.5 – – 4....................................................... 11.31 8.1 11.35 8.4 – – Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 13.52 5.8 13.25 6.1 – – Cooks....................................................... 10.56 3.5 10.92 3.4 – – 3....................................................... 10.28 5.4 – – – – 4....................................................... 11.12 10.2 11.15 10.9 – – Food counter, fountain, and related......................... 7.22 4.5 – – – – Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 10.09 5.9 10.15 5.7 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.21 3.6 7.98 5.6 – – 1....................................................... 7.68 4.5 – – – – 2....................................................... 8.73 3.8 – – – – Health service................................................ 10.53 4.5 10.57 4.9 – – 3....................................................... $10.73 2.9 $10.79 4.0 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.39 4.9 10.41 5.3 – – 3....................................................... 10.71 3.0 10.76 4.1 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 11.03 4.9 10.04 2.2 $13.01 7.2 1....................................................... 9.89 8.5 8.62 4.9 12.31 12.6 2....................................................... 10.01 6.4 9.94 9.9 – – 3....................................................... 11.17 5.5 10.14 4.9 12.19 7.1 Maids and housemen.......................................... 8.75 2.3 8.74 2.4 – – 1....................................................... 7.57 3.5 7.42 3.4 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 11.20 3.9 10.59 3.5 12.07 5.3 1....................................................... 10.89 9.6 9.50 5.7 – – 2....................................................... 11.06 7.3 12.98 18.5 – – 3....................................................... 11.23 5.7 10.18 5.3 12.19 7.1 Personal service.............................................. 8.91 4.0 8.82 5.3 9.16 7.5 1....................................................... 8.06 1.2 8.06 1.5 – – 2....................................................... 7.48 6.5 7.18 5.6 – – 3....................................................... 8.55 1.7 8.35 1.9 – – 4....................................................... 11.06 8.7 – – – – Early childhood teachers' assistants........................ 8.29 4.4 – – – – Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 9.09 15.2 – – – – Service, n.e.c.............................................. 9.44 7.2 9.44 7.2 – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. 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 appendixes C and D for more information. 3 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 4 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. 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-2. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) full-time workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2003 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $19.72 1.6 $19.56 2.0 $20.31 2.1 All excluding sales............................................... 19.88 1.8 19.74 2.2 20.32 2.1 White collar........................................................ 22.18 2.0 22.17 2.6 22.22 1.9 1....................................................... 9.71 8.5 9.07 8.0 – – 2....................................................... 10.91 5.0 11.07 5.5 – – 3....................................................... 12.11 2.7 12.28 3.2 11.39 3.7 4....................................................... 13.18 2.1 13.57 2.3 11.79 1.8 5....................................................... 16.72 10.4 17.39 11.3 12.50 2.7 6....................................................... 16.58 2.7 16.97 3.3 15.11 2.2 7....................................................... 20.46 3.4 19.02 3.1 23.16 7.2 8....................................................... 24.86 2.2 24.58 3.9 25.20 2.0 9....................................................... 25.30 3.1 24.99 2.0 25.85 7.2 10........................................................ 30.32 7.0 32.56 6.1 – – 11........................................................ 35.22 3.2 36.33 2.6 29.20 12.0 12........................................................ 40.32 7.2 41.55 3.9 37.21 22.9 13........................................................ 39.25 10.6 44.65 5.6 – – 14........................................................ 52.65 4.1 55.62 2.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.78 4.2 19.59 4.4 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 22.67 2.0 22.84 2.7 22.24 1.9 1....................................................... 10.23 9.8 – – – – 2....................................................... 11.06 5.0 11.25 5.6 – – 3....................................................... 12.42 2.8 12.70 3.4 11.39 3.8 4....................................................... 13.18 2.1 13.61 2.3 11.79 1.8 5....................................................... 14.55 2.4 14.96 2.6 12.50 2.7 6....................................................... 16.50 2.7 16.89 3.4 15.11 2.2 7....................................................... 20.43 3.8 18.76 3.9 23.16 7.2 8....................................................... 24.64 2.2 24.13 4.0 25.20 2.0 9....................................................... 25.42 3.3 25.17 2.5 25.85 7.2 10........................................................ 30.01 7.4 32.28 6.5 – – 11........................................................ 35.22 3.2 36.33 2.6 29.20 12.0 12........................................................ 40.30 7.2 41.54 3.9 37.21 22.9 13........................................................ 39.25 10.6 44.65 5.6 – – 14........................................................ 52.65 4.1 55.62 2.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.95 5.3 24.97 5.6 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.40 3.3 27.00 4.5 25.42 4.2 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.98 3.3 29.18 4.2 26.25 5.0 6....................................................... 17.89 9.0 – – – – 7....................................................... 22.67 6.2 20.27 6.8 24.84 11.3 8....................................................... 25.76 2.4 24.37 5.5 26.75 1.8 9....................................................... 26.63 3.6 26.17 1.6 27.18 7.0 10........................................................ 27.21 7.8 29.35 6.2 – – 11........................................................ 33.46 3.6 34.88 1.9 26.12 17.9 12........................................................ 37.00 5.7 39.28 3.3 – – 13........................................................ 40.17 14.8 48.27 3.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... $27.75 20.4 $28.17 22.7 – – Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 33.66 5.1 33.85 5.5 – – 9....................................................... 28.10 2.5 28.88 2.6 – – 10........................................................ 31.22 6.8 31.22 6.8 – – 11........................................................ 35.04 5.0 35.04 5.0 – – 12........................................................ 40.18 2.2 40.21 2.6 – – Civil engineers............................................. 36.87 12.2 37.97 13.2 – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 33.12 6.3 33.12 6.3 – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 30.40 5.3 30.67 5.7 – – 11........................................................ 33.43 3.4 33.43 3.4 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 30.93 8.1 31.19 8.3 – – 8....................................................... 25.13 11.3 25.13 11.3 – – 9....................................................... 25.62 3.6 26.14 3.3 – – 11........................................................ 34.70 2.9 34.70 2.9 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 32.33 8.9 32.72 9.1 – – 9....................................................... 25.45 3.9 26.02 3.7 – – 11........................................................ 35.59 2.1 35.59 2.1 – – Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 24.84 5.5 24.84 5.5 – – Natural scientists............................................ 25.90 14.1 34.10 5.1 – – Health related................................................ 26.94 10.9 27.79 13.6 $24.21 7.4 7....................................................... 20.04 1.8 19.78 1.1 – – 8....................................................... 24.03 5.1 24.33 5.4 – – 9....................................................... 24.49 3.9 24.16 2.5 25.11 10.6 Registered nurses........................................... 23.66 2.7 23.70 2.9 23.53 7.0 7....................................................... 20.88 1.5 – – – – 8....................................................... 23.85 5.4 24.13 5.5 – – 9....................................................... 23.67 2.3 24.29 2.2 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 32.58 5.3 28.95 8.3 34.43 4.5 Medical science teachers.................................... 33.64 5.0 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 27.28 5.0 20.11 16.1 28.08 5.3 7....................................................... 24.17 9.5 – – 25.84 11.6 8....................................................... 28.56 .7 – – 28.38 .4 9....................................................... 31.29 2.7 – – 31.40 2.7 Elementary school teachers.................................. 30.43 5.3 – – 30.38 5.7 8....................................................... 28.34 2.7 – – – – 9....................................................... 34.16 1.6 – – – – Secondary school teachers................................... 29.21 7.7 – – 29.05 8.0 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 25.47 3.1 – – 25.64 3.1 7....................................................... 25.00 5.8 – – 25.45 6.1 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 16.29 6.4 15.70 9.9 16.81 7.1 Social workers.............................................. 15.79 6.0 – – 16.26 7.9 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 23.62 8.5 23.85 8.5 – – 9....................................................... $25.38 9.7 $25.38 9.7 – – 11........................................................ 34.26 5.6 34.26 5.6 – – Editors and reporters....................................... 26.03 20.7 26.03 20.7 – – Technical....................................................... 18.67 3.1 18.89 3.9 $17.91 3.6 4....................................................... 12.44 7.9 13.35 9.5 – – 5....................................................... 14.83 4.2 15.21 4.3 – – 6....................................................... 16.77 2.9 16.96 3.4 – – 7....................................................... 20.13 7.0 20.08 10.0 – – 8....................................................... 20.58 5.0 – – – – 9....................................................... 23.40 7.8 24.47 10.3 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 20.19 8.4 19.31 8.3 – – Radiological technicians.................................... 21.19 1.4 – – – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 15.03 1.7 15.65 1.1 – – 6....................................................... 15.90 .7 15.89 .7 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 15.27 6.4 15.10 7.9 – – Computer programmers........................................ 24.69 7.8 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.99 6.1 29.26 6.8 27.63 13.8 5....................................................... 14.82 3.4 14.82 3.4 – – 7....................................................... 18.03 4.8 17.81 3.5 – – 8....................................................... 23.79 7.9 25.07 8.8 – – 9....................................................... 23.63 5.3 24.49 5.0 – – 10........................................................ 32.82 11.4 34.95 9.8 – – 11........................................................ 36.97 4.1 37.89 3.7 – – 12........................................................ 45.29 10.6 45.77 8.1 – – 13........................................................ 37.00 5.4 37.09 6.9 – – 14........................................................ 51.87 4.5 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 26.90 17.4 26.99 17.7 – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 32.73 7.1 33.61 7.8 29.98 15.3 8....................................................... 21.74 5.2 23.33 7.5 – – 9....................................................... 26.23 10.2 27.10 10.6 – – 10........................................................ 33.34 25.1 40.97 17.4 – – 11........................................................ 36.37 5.5 37.69 5.2 – – 12........................................................ 45.29 10.6 45.77 8.1 – – 13........................................................ 37.00 5.4 37.09 6.9 – – 14........................................................ 51.87 4.5 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 26.82 18.7 26.92 19.1 – – Financial managers.......................................... 34.21 6.6 – – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 36.61 14.0 – – 36.66 14.3 Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments......... 22.11 36.9 22.11 36.9 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 35.95 8.0 35.93 8.3 – – 9....................................................... 30.59 9.5 28.99 9.7 – – 11........................................................ 40.06 5.5 40.06 5.5 – – 12........................................................ 50.33 9.5 50.33 9.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.83 7.1 21.83 7.1 – – Management related............................................ 24.03 9.7 24.59 9.7 15.64 5.1 5....................................................... $14.25 2.4 $14.25 2.4 – – 7....................................................... 17.44 3.7 17.78 3.7 – – 8....................................................... 26.13 12.5 26.15 12.5 – – 9....................................................... 21.80 6.1 22.98 4.6 – – 10........................................................ 32.50 10.0 32.50 10.0 – – 11........................................................ 38.16 5.6 38.21 5.6 – – Other financial officers.................................... 29.48 11.5 29.48 11.5 – – Management analysts......................................... 28.31 17.9 28.37 18.0 – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 18.89 7.2 18.89 7.2 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 20.40 12.4 21.47 14.5 – – Sales............................................................. 16.88 12.5 16.90 12.5 – – 3....................................................... 10.17 1.0 10.13 .8 – – 4....................................................... 13.19 11.1 13.19 11.1 – – 5....................................................... 26.64 27.7 26.64 27.7 – – 7....................................................... 20.85 6.3 20.85 6.3 – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 22.07 25.3 22.07 25.3 – – Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 35.20 18.6 35.20 18.6 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 11.79 10.7 11.79 10.7 – – Cashiers.................................................... 9.41 2.6 9.38 2.6 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.81 1.3 14.12 1.5 $12.72 1.4 1....................................................... 10.23 9.8 – – – – 2....................................................... 11.09 4.9 11.29 5.4 – – 3....................................................... 12.47 2.8 12.78 3.5 11.39 3.8 4....................................................... 13.25 2.2 13.65 2.5 11.92 1.8 5....................................................... 14.53 3.1 15.27 3.1 12.41 3.2 6....................................................... 15.86 3.2 16.19 4.4 15.06 4.0 7....................................................... 16.05 6.2 16.21 6.9 – – 9....................................................... 21.64 4.4 21.64 4.4 – – Supervisors, general office................................. 19.70 10.5 – – – – Secretaries................................................. 14.79 5.1 15.83 4.0 13.17 6.3 4....................................................... 12.92 3.9 13.41 3.2 – – 5....................................................... 16.10 5.5 17.22 3.0 – – Order clerks................................................ 13.64 6.7 13.64 6.7 – – 4....................................................... 15.17 9.9 15.17 9.9 – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 13.80 11.3 14.17 14.1 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 13.13 4.0 13.19 4.4 – – 4....................................................... 12.98 5.0 12.98 5.0 – – Billing clerks.............................................. 15.06 4.6 15.06 4.6 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 15.04 5.1 15.04 5.1 – – General office clerks....................................... 14.17 3.8 15.28 3.0 12.10 7.1 4....................................................... 14.81 6.4 15.45 6.3 – – 5....................................................... 13.19 7.2 15.38 4.1 – – Teachers' aides............................................. 10.74 .5 – – 10.74 .5 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 13.36 7.1 13.85 7.4 – – 4....................................................... $12.28 10.1 – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 17.77 3.7 $17.83 4.0 $16.95 5.4 1....................................................... 10.75 7.0 10.75 7.0 – – 2....................................................... 11.17 4.2 11.17 4.2 – – 3....................................................... 17.72 3.6 18.08 3.9 12.27 6.5 4....................................................... 15.03 8.3 14.97 8.5 – – 5....................................................... 16.95 4.7 17.13 5.1 15.20 3.1 6....................................................... 18.51 4.5 18.82 4.8 – – 7....................................................... 21.77 3.7 22.00 3.8 19.34 5.5 8....................................................... 24.02 7.2 24.02 7.2 – – 9....................................................... 29.75 4.9 30.28 5.1 – – 10........................................................ 33.57 1.6 – – – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 21.85 4.9 22.16 5.3 19.55 5.1 5....................................................... 18.35 4.2 18.78 4.7 – – 6....................................................... 17.94 4.0 18.29 5.1 – – 7....................................................... 22.15 4.6 22.52 5.0 19.34 5.5 8....................................................... 24.17 6.9 24.17 6.9 – – 9....................................................... 29.45 5.2 30.04 5.4 – – 10........................................................ 33.57 1.6 – – – – Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 23.26 5.2 25.61 9.5 – – Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 17.52 4.0 17.52 4.0 – – Heavy equipment mechanics................................... 17.76 2.3 17.84 2.6 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 19.45 3.8 19.45 3.8 – – 7....................................................... 19.34 4.4 19.34 4.4 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 22.68 3.2 24.01 3.8 – – Electricians................................................ 28.64 9.3 30.41 5.1 – – 7....................................................... 24.75 13.3 – – – – Supervisors, production..................................... 24.34 7.1 23.92 8.3 – – 7....................................................... 22.97 12.7 22.97 12.7 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 17.50 3.7 17.50 3.7 – – 3....................................................... 19.57 6.3 19.57 6.3 – – 4....................................................... 14.30 14.1 14.30 14.1 – – 5....................................................... 14.70 2.1 14.70 2.1 – – 6....................................................... 17.33 2.8 17.33 2.8 – – 7....................................................... 18.63 5.8 18.63 5.8 – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 10.52 1.5 10.52 1.5 – – Printing press operators.................................... 18.21 9.4 18.21 9.4 – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 15.15 13.7 15.15 13.7 – – Assemblers.................................................. 23.20 4.9 23.20 4.9 – – 3....................................................... 24.24 4.6 24.24 4.6 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 17.88 5.0 18.22 5.4 14.08 4.8 3....................................................... 14.74 15.8 16.22 21.1 – – 4....................................................... $17.23 4.2 $16.92 4.3 – – 5....................................................... 18.15 7.0 18.52 6.5 – – 6....................................................... 20.47 12.0 20.47 12.0 – – 7....................................................... 22.68 3.7 22.68 3.7 – – Truck drivers............................................... 19.25 8.3 19.32 8.3 – – 4....................................................... 17.35 5.1 17.35 5.1 – – 6....................................................... 20.91 12.7 20.91 12.7 – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 15.97 12.8 15.97 12.8 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.76 4.4 12.74 4.6 $13.08 9.5 1....................................................... 11.04 8.6 11.04 8.6 – – 2....................................................... 11.45 6.9 11.45 6.9 – – 3....................................................... 14.12 7.3 14.41 8.3 – – 4....................................................... 15.21 9.7 15.38 9.7 – – 5....................................................... 15.16 4.3 15.14 5.4 – – Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 10.00 15.9 – – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 13.08 6.4 13.08 6.4 – – 2....................................................... 11.65 10.3 11.65 10.3 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 12.85 11.0 12.85 11.0 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 12.47 7.2 12.47 7.2 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 12.00 9.1 11.84 9.9 – – Service............................................................. 12.73 5.8 11.07 9.3 15.57 7.0 1....................................................... 9.05 6.0 8.34 4.5 10.74 6.8 2....................................................... 9.33 3.8 9.12 4.8 10.01 2.5 3....................................................... 9.75 7.7 9.42 11.7 10.30 8.1 4....................................................... 11.12 6.6 10.85 6.7 – – 5....................................................... 16.09 4.3 – – 14.58 2.2 6....................................................... 13.16 6.3 11.19 3.8 – – 7....................................................... 16.04 3.2 – – – – 8....................................................... 20.04 8.0 – – 20.04 8.0 9....................................................... 22.94 1.7 – – 22.94 1.7 Protective service............................................ 18.65 2.5 – – 19.43 3.6 9....................................................... 22.94 1.7 – – 22.94 1.7 Firefighting................................................ 17.44 4.4 – – 17.44 4.4 Food service.................................................. 9.39 10.9 9.40 13.0 9.37 3.6 1....................................................... 7.71 6.4 7.63 8.4 – – 3....................................................... 8.47 25.8 8.35 31.1 – – 4....................................................... 11.39 7.2 11.42 7.6 – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.76 40.4 3.76 40.4 – – Other food service........................................... 10.53 3.9 10.81 4.7 9.37 3.6 1....................................................... 8.31 3.2 – – – – 3....................................................... 11.30 7.7 12.04 5.1 – – 4....................................................... 11.55 7.1 11.59 7.4 – – Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 13.52 5.8 13.25 6.1 – – Cooks....................................................... 10.77 4.0 11.16 2.5 – – 4....................................................... $11.40 9.4 $11.45 10.0 – – Health service................................................ 11.01 2.4 11.11 2.5 – – 3....................................................... 10.73 2.9 10.79 4.0 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.88 2.8 10.97 3.0 – – 3....................................................... 10.71 3.0 10.76 4.1 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 11.10 5.0 10.09 2.2 $13.01 7.2 1....................................................... 10.07 8.5 8.79 4.6 12.31 12.6 2....................................................... 9.98 6.9 – – – – 3....................................................... 11.17 5.5 10.14 4.9 12.19 7.1 Maids and housemen.......................................... 8.66 2.9 8.65 3.1 – – 1....................................................... 7.57 3.7 – – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 11.27 3.9 10.68 3.5 12.07 5.3 1....................................................... 11.18 9.6 9.88 4.6 – – 2....................................................... 11.08 7.5 – – – – 3....................................................... 11.23 5.7 10.18 5.3 12.19 7.1 Personal service.............................................. 9.42 4.9 9.46 5.9 – – Service, n.e.c.............................................. 9.67 7.8 9.67 7.8 – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. 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 appendixes C and D 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 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. 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-3. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) part-time workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2003 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $10.92 5.6 $10.59 6.1 $13.87 4.9 All excluding sales............................................... 11.53 5.0 11.18 5.7 13.87 4.9 White collar........................................................ 13.61 5.5 13.15 6.0 16.90 7.3 1....................................................... 7.37 3.8 7.39 4.0 – – 2....................................................... 7.82 10.1 7.85 10.4 – – 3....................................................... 8.99 3.2 8.69 2.8 11.24 2.6 4....................................................... 11.90 3.1 12.22 3.1 – – 5....................................................... 14.16 14.7 14.27 17.9 – – 7....................................................... 17.59 4.6 17.92 7.0 17.03 4.8 8....................................................... 24.56 8.6 24.63 8.8 – – 9....................................................... 24.41 3.6 24.48 4.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 11.43 13.0 11.45 13.1 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 17.11 4.3 17.16 5.0 16.90 7.3 1....................................................... 8.27 9.0 – – – – 3....................................................... 9.85 4.8 9.25 3.2 11.24 2.6 4....................................................... 11.79 3.4 12.18 3.3 – – 5....................................................... 13.91 8.7 14.15 14.1 – – 7....................................................... 17.59 4.6 17.92 7.0 17.03 4.8 8....................................................... 24.56 8.6 24.63 8.8 – – 9....................................................... 24.41 3.6 24.48 4.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 11.43 13.0 11.45 13.1 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 21.18 4.4 21.47 4.8 20.28 10.9 Professional specialty.......................................... 22.80 5.1 23.18 5.0 21.53 14.1 7....................................................... 18.97 5.4 – – – – 8....................................................... 25.21 9.1 25.31 9.3 – – 9....................................................... 24.41 3.6 24.48 4.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 9.80 27.1 9.80 27.1 – – Health related................................................ 27.11 3.6 26.50 4.0 – – 8....................................................... 26.62 8.6 26.62 8.6 – – 9....................................................... 25.61 .5 25.90 .4 – – Registered nurses........................................... 26.65 1.7 27.31 2.2 – – 8....................................................... 27.92 8.0 27.92 8.0 – – 9....................................................... 25.67 .5 25.90 .4 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 12.58 12.9 – – 12.57 14.6 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 13.42 13.2 – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 9.58 24.3 9.58 24.3 – – Technical....................................................... 14.22 4.7 13.19 7.3 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 15.04 4.9 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... – – – – – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... – – – – – – Management related............................................ – – – – – – Sales............................................................. $8.72 6.5 $8.72 6.5 – – 1....................................................... 7.19 3.5 7.19 3.5 – – 2....................................................... 7.85 10.4 7.85 10.4 – – 3....................................................... 8.45 4.4 8.45 4.4 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 9.02 12.5 9.02 12.5 – – Cashiers.................................................... 7.69 6.1 7.69 6.1 – – 1....................................................... 7.43 5.0 7.43 5.0 – – 3....................................................... 7.56 2.8 7.56 2.8 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 10.50 3.8 10.54 4.6 $10.33 6.0 1....................................................... 8.27 9.0 – – – – 3....................................................... 9.85 4.9 9.23 3.2 11.24 2.6 4....................................................... 11.74 2.6 11.84 2.5 – – Blue collar......................................................... 9.96 7.4 9.90 7.7 – – 1....................................................... 7.65 5.8 7.65 5.8 – – 2....................................................... 8.87 7.2 8.87 7.2 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... – – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 8.92 6.6 8.92 6.6 – – 1....................................................... 7.51 6.7 7.51 6.7 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 7.82 10.2 7.82 10.2 – – 1....................................................... 6.89 8.0 6.89 8.0 – – Service............................................................. 7.14 6.1 7.00 6.8 8.36 5.8 1....................................................... 6.33 8.4 6.00 9.4 – – 2....................................................... 7.04 8.6 7.02 9.7 – – 3....................................................... 6.19 14.6 6.04 14.6 – – Protective service............................................ 8.87 6.7 8.24 4.4 – – Food service.................................................. 6.12 4.1 5.91 4.0 7.66 1.2 1....................................................... 5.88 11.2 5.67 12.0 – – 2....................................................... 6.19 13.2 5.96 15.8 – – 3....................................................... 5.42 9.7 5.13 5.5 – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 4.08 11.0 4.01 11.0 – – 1....................................................... 5.00 17.6 5.00 17.6 – – 2....................................................... 3.22 28.7 2.83 27.6 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.80 14.3 2.80 14.3 – – Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants............................. 5.86 4.0 5.83 4.6 – – Other food service........................................... $8.34 4.9 $8.44 5.9 – – 1....................................................... 7.29 4.6 6.95 5.1 – – 2....................................................... 8.25 4.5 8.55 5.7 – – Cooks....................................................... 9.81 2.9 – – – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 7.70 4.5 7.38 5.1 – – Health service................................................ 8.75 10.4 8.75 10.4 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 8.94 8.8 8.94 8.8 – – Personal service.............................................. 7.89 8.2 7.82 9.8 – – 1....................................................... 7.28 4.1 6.87 3.2 – – 2....................................................... 7.40 9.4 – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. 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 appendixes C and D 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 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. 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 5-1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2003 Private industry and State and local government Occupational group Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) 3) 3) Mean All occupations....................................................... $19.72 $10.92 $20.27 $18.58 $18.74 $23.70 All excluding sales............................................. 19.88 11.53 20.34 18.94 19.17 22.12 White collar........................................................ 22.18 13.61 22.43 21.41 21.30 26.13 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 22.67 17.11 22.79 22.34 22.31 26.22 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.40 21.18 29.44 25.63 26.06 – Professional specialty.......................................... 27.98 22.80 29.53 27.35 27.64 – Technical....................................................... 18.67 14.22 – 18.28 18.34 – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.99 – – 29.01 28.18 44.52 Sales............................................................. 16.88 8.72 – 14.50 10.70 26.07 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.81 10.50 15.84 13.29 13.65 – Blue collar......................................................... 17.77 9.96 20.38 14.49 17.26 19.25 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 21.85 – 23.24 20.20 21.80 – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 17.50 – 20.21 13.75 17.33 – Transportation and material moving................................ 17.88 – 21.48 12.99 16.09 21.48 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.76 8.92 14.65 11.09 12.43 – Service............................................................. 12.73 7.14 15.53 10.79 11.64 – B Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- Occupational group workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) 3) 3) Relative error(6) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 1.6 5.6 3.0 2.3 1.9 9.9 All excluding sales............................................. 1.8 5.0 3.0 2.3 1.7 10.2 White collar........................................................ 2.0 5.5 5.3 2.5 2.2 12.4 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 2.0 4.3 5.3 2.3 2.0 5.7 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 3.3 4.4 4.6 3.3 3.1 – Professional specialty.......................................... 3.3 5.1 4.6 3.4 3.1 – Technical....................................................... 3.1 4.7 – 2.9 2.9 – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 6.1 – – 6.3 5.7 13.5 Sales............................................................. 12.5 6.5 – 12.6 5.3 18.4 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 1.3 3.8 2.3 1.6 1.3 – Blue collar......................................................... 3.7 7.4 4.2 3.9 3.8 14.4 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 4.9 – 6.0 4.0 5.0 – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 3.7 – 6.7 4.1 3.5 – Transportation and material moving................................ 5.0 – 3.2 5.7 5.2 13.8 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.4 6.6 9.9 5.2 4.7 – Service............................................................. 5.8 6.1 4.1 4.4 4.8 – 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. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B 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 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 5 Time workers' wages are based solely on an 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. 6 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 5-2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2003 Full-time and part-time workers Goods-producing indust- Service-producing industries(4) ries(3) Occupational group All pri- vate indus- Trans- Wholesale Finance, tries Con- Manu- portation and insur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and pub- retail ance, and ices tion turing lic trade real utilities estate Mean All occupations....................................................... $18.65 $20.20 – $23.58 $19.60 $18.15 $20.78 $14.00 - $19.03 All excluding sales............................................. 19.02 20.30 – 23.58 19.70 18.58 20.82 13.76 - 19.25 White collar........................................................ 21.34 23.20 – 21.65 23.40 21.05 22.69 16.53 - 22.19 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 22.52 23.83 – 21.65 24.14 22.30 22.82 19.31 - 22.63 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.56 29.38 – – 29.38 26.07 – 40.08 - 25.51 Professional specialty.......................................... 28.68 30.10 – – 30.10 28.42 – – - 27.91 Technical....................................................... 18.52 25.69 – – 25.69 17.57 17.90 – - 17.76 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 29.02 27.58 – – 25.13 29.23 – 22.69 - 27.46 Sales............................................................. 14.45 16.68 – – 16.68 14.25 – 14.49 - 11.68 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.92 15.92 – – 16.61 13.56 15.26 12.84 - 13.06 Blue collar......................................................... 17.40 19.02 – 24.13 17.90 15.56 18.73 12.55 - 11.29 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 22.11 23.65 – 27.04 20.91 20.10 21.93 16.80 - – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 17.33 18.07 – – 18.07 10.62 – – - 10.57 Transportation and material moving................................ 17.38 17.18 – – 15.46 17.43 19.27 12.26 - – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.35 13.95 – – 13.49 11.64 13.84 10.99 - 9.26 Service............................................................. 10.03 12.81 – – 12.81 9.92 – 6.44 - 10.85 B Goods-producing indust- Service-producing industries(4) ries(3) All pri- vate Occupational group indus- Trans- Wholesale Finance, tries Con- Manu- portation and insur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and pub- retail ance, and ices tion turing lic trade real utilities estate Relative error(5) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 2.3 2.5 – 9.2 2.1 2.9 3.5 4.5 - 3.6 All excluding sales............................................. 2.2 2.7 – 9.2 2.3 2.9 3.6 8.6 - 3.5 White collar........................................................ 2.9 4.1 – 38.8 1.4 3.3 8.0 6.9 - 4.1 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 2.8 4.4 – 38.8 1.1 3.2 7.8 12.9 - 4.2 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 4.4 1.3 – – 1.3 5.2 – 18.0 - 6.0 Professional specialty.......................................... 4.2 1.4 – – 1.4 5.1 – – - 6.0 Technical....................................................... 3.7 6.5 – – 6.5 3.2 14.6 – - 3.4 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 6.9 13.7 – – 10.6 7.5 – 7.9 - 18.5 Sales............................................................. 12.4 15.3 – – 15.3 13.5 – 16.0 - 12.8 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 1.6 5.2 – – 4.1 1.7 5.4 3.4 - 3.8 Blue collar......................................................... 4.2 4.6 – 7.3 1.9 6.0 8.4 4.6 - 18.5 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 5.3 7.7 – 7.7 4.5 4.1 4.2 2.8 - – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 3.5 3.9 – – 3.9 5.3 – – - 9.4 Transportation and material moving................................ 7.0 13.5 – – 15.2 8.1 7.2 14.0 - – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.7 4.5 – – 3.2 5.9 16.4 8.8 - .6 Service............................................................. 7.9 13.0 – – 13.0 8.4 – 3.1 - 11.2 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. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 4 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. 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. Table 5-3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2003 Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All 50 - 99 private workers(- industry 3) 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Mean All occupations....................................................... $18.65 $15.70 $19.38 $17.38 $21.97 All excluding sales............................................. 19.02 15.52 19.85 17.89 22.18 White collar........................................................ 21.34 19.02 21.78 19.96 23.86 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 22.52 19.75 22.95 21.58 24.27 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.56 19.91 26.91 26.37 27.35 Professional specialty.......................................... 28.68 21.14 29.05 28.85 29.20 Technical....................................................... 18.52 16.46 18.65 18.25 19.08 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 29.02 27.46 29.43 26.82 32.04 Sales............................................................. 14.45 17.03 13.41 13.31 13.94 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.92 13.63 13.98 13.45 14.59 Blue collar......................................................... 17.40 16.59 17.61 15.21 21.17 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 22.11 20.76 22.69 21.88 24.44 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 17.33 13.64 18.04 12.41 22.43 Transportation and material moving................................ 17.38 14.96 17.97 15.19 22.13 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.35 13.54 12.10 11.45 13.75 Service............................................................. 10.03 8.29 11.01 11.23 10.61 B Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All 50 - 99 private workers(- industry 3) 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Relative error(4) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 2.3 6.7 2.5 3.9 3.4 All excluding sales............................................. 2.2 6.9 2.4 3.8 3.5 White collar........................................................ 2.9 11.7 3.1 4.5 4.2 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 2.8 9.8 3.2 4.4 4.4 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 4.4 7.5 4.6 5.7 5.6 Professional specialty.......................................... 4.2 7.5 4.4 6.4 4.6 Technical....................................................... 3.7 10.4 4.0 6.3 3.4 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 6.9 11.7 7.6 12.1 6.6 Sales............................................................. 12.4 35.3 7.7 8.4 13.4 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 1.6 3.9 1.8 2.1 2.5 Blue collar......................................................... 4.2 7.3 4.5 7.6 3.3 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 5.3 5.3 6.5 10.3 1.0 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 3.5 9.3 5.6 2.6 5.7 Transportation and material moving................................ 7.0 14.9 8.5 15.2 3.8 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.7 10.9 5.5 7.4 6.6 Service............................................................. 7.9 8.2 10.0 14.8 2.8 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. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. 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 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2003 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $8.75 $11.09 $16.22 $24.06 $33.22 All excluding sales........................... 9.00 11.55 16.66 24.51 33.44 White collar.................................... 10.00 12.69 18.54 26.74 37.39 White collar excluding sales................ 10.86 13.75 19.46 27.99 37.84 Professional specialty and technical.......... 14.97 18.88 23.66 31.76 38.68 Professional specialty...................... 16.66 20.32 25.45 33.92 40.01 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 22.92 27.06 32.21 38.75 45.35 Civil engineers......................... 21.87 29.71 36.64 46.51 49.79 Electrical and electronic engineers..... 24.54 27.00 33.59 38.55 41.20 Engineers, n.e.c........................ 22.84 25.50 30.25 34.12 38.75 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 19.58 22.69 28.40 36.06 49.89 Computer systems analysts and scientists 20.02 23.29 30.18 37.51 50.61 Operations and systems researchers and analysts............................. 18.57 21.31 25.73 25.73 30.69 Natural scientists........................ 13.95 16.35 21.02 27.95 52.13 Health related............................ 18.96 20.67 23.36 27.96 36.73 Registered nurses....................... 19.52 21.00 23.36 26.99 31.29 Respiratory therapists.................. 14.68 18.66 23.09 23.09 23.09 Teachers, college and university.......... 20.43 24.51 30.94 36.47 49.61 Medical science teachers................ 18.96 22.84 31.04 38.46 53.65 Teachers, except college and university... 15.37 21.16 26.07 33.75 37.76 Prekindergarten and kindergarten........ 10.31 11.50 13.26 19.16 31.09 Elementary school teachers.............. 21.55 24.74 30.01 36.42 39.79 Secondary school teachers............... 21.17 22.81 27.79 35.89 39.68 Teachers, n.e.c......................... 16.05 19.93 23.49 30.60 36.05 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... 20.81 23.45 28.12 35.02 35.02 Librarians.............................. 20.81 23.45 28.12 35.02 35.02 Social scientists and urban planners...... – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers. 12.45 14.07 16.66 19.39 21.18 Social workers.......................... 12.02 13.19 15.48 18.13 19.89 Lawyers and judges........................ – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 9.50 15.03 20.19 28.44 35.82 Editors and reporters................... 12.24 13.43 20.09 31.03 39.83 Technical................................... 12.16 15.00 17.12 20.76 26.18 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians.......................... 15.66 17.12 19.22 23.21 25.71 Radiological technicians................ 17.37 18.50 19.85 23.58 24.88 Licensed practical nurses............... 11.62 14.00 15.50 16.50 17.50 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................................ 10.20 11.52 14.57 17.00 18.54 Computer programmers.................... 18.85 20.32 24.06 27.99 32.60 Technical and related, n.e.c............ 13.30 15.39 17.83 26.06 31.80 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 14.40 18.36 25.20 36.03 50.48 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 15.58 20.57 28.85 41.49 52.56 Financial managers...................... 26.07 29.84 33.71 38.62 41.05 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 19.09 24.63 34.62 43.59 54.25 Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments....................... $11.54 $14.38 $15.63 $21.39 $37.98 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 15.97 25.03 34.13 47.25 52.56 Management related........................ 13.82 15.75 21.01 30.22 37.96 Accountants and auditors................ 13.31 13.31 16.00 17.50 19.49 Other financial officers................ 14.42 18.22 30.22 38.46 51.28 Management analysts..................... 18.53 20.17 26.04 37.96 43.56 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists.......................... 12.00 14.42 18.68 21.71 27.11 Management related, n.e.c............... 13.91 14.75 18.22 25.60 31.35 Sales......................................... 7.00 8.08 10.21 16.74 25.02 Supervisors, sales...................... 10.45 11.60 19.09 23.50 43.50 Sales, other business services.......... 11.61 13.85 16.74 16.74 26.70 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale......... 11.73 16.35 20.56 41.68 52.70 Sales workers, other commodities........ 6.02 7.90 9.37 12.55 15.44 Cashiers................................ 6.75 7.40 8.25 9.84 11.00 Administrative support, including clerical.... 9.53 10.88 12.80 15.40 18.63 Supervisors, general office............. 10.55 15.38 21.47 22.75 28.85 Secretaries............................. 10.62 11.93 14.38 16.87 19.17 Receptionists........................... 9.76 9.83 10.85 11.50 12.25 Order clerks............................ 9.35 10.50 12.50 15.03 19.55 Library clerks.......................... 6.80 7.80 8.33 9.12 10.22 Records clerks, n.e.c................... 10.00 10.82 12.65 17.26 18.60 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 10.19 11.73 13.32 14.87 15.71 Billing clerks.......................... 11.75 12.81 15.40 16.86 18.33 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 10.50 13.00 14.34 15.64 18.86 Stock and inventory clerks.............. 7.95 8.00 9.25 19.37 20.07 General office clerks................... 9.44 11.20 14.30 16.38 17.43 Data entry keyers....................... 10.00 10.82 11.00 12.00 13.00 Teachers' aides......................... 8.80 9.76 10.77 11.96 12.38 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 8.82 10.75 12.50 16.00 18.32 Blue collar..................................... 9.00 11.44 16.15 22.60 26.33 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 14.42 16.99 20.60 26.56 30.88 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers.... 16.63 20.28 21.04 25.96 29.90 Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics............................ 12.09 15.50 18.85 20.11 20.47 Heavy equipment mechanics............... 14.90 15.27 18.75 19.86 20.72 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 16.39 17.99 20.08 21.00 21.71 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 16.63 20.28 22.60 25.04 28.08 Electricians............................ 19.49 24.90 30.11 33.73 33.73 Supervisors, production................. 14.47 20.53 25.46 28.56 29.39 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 9.75 10.95 15.37 25.80 26.33 Molding and casting machine operators... 7.25 7.75 10.36 11.00 17.06 Printing press operators................ 12.01 13.58 18.24 23.15 25.95 Packaging and filling machine operators. $10.61 $11.14 $12.66 $14.89 $27.85 Assemblers.............................. 11.73 23.28 26.03 26.33 26.33 Transportation and material moving............ 9.25 11.91 15.47 21.35 25.46 Truck drivers........................... 11.50 14.84 19.25 24.43 25.88 Motor transportation, n.e.c............. 8.00 8.50 9.00 10.00 10.00 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 8.00 12.31 15.53 19.44 25.46 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 8.00 9.00 11.33 14.89 18.38 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................................. 7.38 8.00 8.53 10.10 15.47 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 6.50 9.10 11.44 15.90 16.55 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 8.15 9.20 12.60 14.89 18.65 Hand packers and packagers.............. 8.00 8.50 10.61 16.70 16.70 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 8.50 8.50 10.50 14.15 18.07 Service......................................... 6.49 8.30 10.00 14.03 18.34 Protective service........................ 11.00 14.79 17.12 20.62 24.86 Firefighting............................ 12.66 14.93 17.88 20.41 22.30 Guards and police, except public service 9.05 13.48 17.12 17.12 17.12 Food service.............................. 2.13 5.74 8.47 10.20 12.88 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.13 2.13 2.58 5.50 7.00 Waiters and waitresses.................. 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.58 4.38 Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants......... 5.15 5.50 6.00 8.00 10.20 Other food service....................... 7.40 8.15 9.36 11.36 14.00 Supervisors, food preparation and service.............................. 10.13 11.33 12.00 15.50 17.65 Cooks................................... 8.00 9.00 10.00 12.00 14.00 Food counter, fountain, and related..... 6.25 6.49 7.00 8.25 8.50 Kitchen workers, food preparation....... 7.90 8.50 9.13 12.02 14.05 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 7.00 7.61 8.00 9.29 9.50 Health service............................ 8.00 9.45 10.10 11.67 13.24 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 7.78 9.25 10.00 11.60 12.84 Cleaning and building service............. $7.50 $9.03 $9.87 $11.66 $16.00 Maids and housemen...................... 7.35 7.50 9.04 9.41 10.12 Janitors and cleaners................... 8.50 9.47 10.04 12.05 16.22 Personal service.......................... 6.00 7.50 8.55 10.25 11.51 Early childhood teachers' assistants.... 7.00 7.57 8.26 8.85 9.14 Child care workers, n.e.c............... 6.00 6.00 9.00 10.79 13.11 Service, n.e.c.......................... 7.50 8.00 9.00 11.47 12.50 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 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry, National Compensation Survey, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2003 Private industry Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $8.50 $10.85 $15.76 $23.83 $32.04 All excluding sales........................... 9.00 11.33 16.32 24.50 32.99 White collar.................................... 9.57 12.50 18.21 26.30 37.51 White collar excluding sales................ 11.00 13.77 19.30 27.81 38.28 Professional specialty and technical.......... 15.41 19.00 23.87 31.80 39.93 Professional specialty...................... 18.00 20.91 26.00 34.62 42.91 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 23.56 27.69 32.21 38.61 45.60 Civil engineers......................... 22.12 31.33 38.15 46.93 49.79 Electrical and electronic engineers..... 24.54 27.00 33.59 38.55 41.20 Engineers, n.e.c........................ 22.84 25.50 31.06 34.43 38.75 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 19.74 23.06 28.41 36.22 49.89 Computer systems analysts and scientists 20.12 23.87 30.70 38.34 50.61 Operations and systems researchers and analysts............................. 18.57 21.31 25.73 25.73 30.69 Natural scientists........................ 19.23 22.65 26.95 50.86 52.13 Health related............................ 19.30 20.72 23.73 28.00 36.50 Registered nurses....................... 19.66 21.00 23.86 27.12 31.51 Respiratory therapists.................. 14.68 18.66 23.09 23.09 23.09 Teachers, college and university.......... 23.08 25.67 28.22 32.05 35.80 Teachers, except college and university... 10.59 12.25 17.83 24.22 34.80 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. 11.30 12.93 16.75 18.61 19.48 Lawyers and judges........................ - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 9.50 16.07 20.19 28.78 35.90 Editors and reporters................... 12.24 13.43 20.09 31.03 39.83 Technical................................... 12.50 15.39 17.12 20.31 27.99 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians.......................... 15.66 17.12 18.37 22.37 23.68 Radiological technicians................ 17.85 18.50 19.85 23.58 24.88 Licensed practical nurses............... 13.42 14.65 15.50 16.50 17.33 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................................ 10.16 11.00 14.57 17.00 18.54 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 14.38 18.53 25.64 35.85 51.28 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 15.26 22.31 29.27 43.27 52.56 Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments....................... 11.54 14.38 15.63 21.39 37.98 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 15.26 24.83 34.13 48.13 52.56 Management related........................ 14.00 16.42 21.64 30.60 38.46 Accountants and auditors................ 13.31 13.31 16.00 17.50 19.49 Other financial officers................ 14.42 18.22 30.22 38.46 51.28 Management analysts..................... 18.53 20.43 26.04 37.96 43.56 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists.......................... 12.00 14.42 18.68 21.71 27.11 Management related, n.e.c............... 14.00 15.00 19.50 26.44 32.01 Sales......................................... $7.00 $8.06 $10.21 $16.74 $25.02 Supervisors, sales...................... 10.45 11.60 19.09 23.50 43.50 Sales, other business services.......... 11.61 13.85 16.74 16.74 26.70 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale......... 11.73 16.35 20.56 41.68 52.70 Sales workers, other commodities........ 6.02 7.90 9.37 12.55 15.44 Cashiers................................ 6.75 7.40 8.21 9.79 11.00 Administrative support, including clerical.... 9.60 11.01 13.28 15.64 18.98 Secretaries............................. 11.31 12.80 15.62 18.08 19.92 Order clerks............................ 9.35 10.50 12.50 15.03 19.55 Records clerks, n.e.c................... 10.00 11.13 13.20 18.60 18.60 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 10.00 11.89 13.32 15.00 15.78 Billing clerks.......................... 11.75 12.81 15.40 16.86 18.33 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 10.50 13.00 14.34 15.64 18.86 Stock and inventory clerks.............. 7.95 8.00 9.25 19.37 20.07 General office clerks................... 10.82 12.92 14.64 16.43 18.08 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 10.00 10.75 14.25 16.00 18.32 Blue collar..................................... 9.00 11.20 16.17 23.11 26.33 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 14.42 17.00 21.00 27.14 31.25 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers.... 21.04 21.04 24.56 28.81 32.76 Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics............................ 12.09 15.50 18.85 20.11 20.47 Heavy equipment mechanics............... 13.43 14.90 18.75 19.86 20.72 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 16.39 17.99 20.08 21.00 21.71 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 22.60 22.60 24.26 25.04 28.38 Electricians............................ 23.91 30.09 30.73 33.73 33.73 Supervisors, production................. 14.47 20.53 24.50 27.89 29.39 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 9.75 10.95 15.37 25.80 26.33 Molding and casting machine operators... 7.25 7.75 10.36 11.00 17.06 Printing press operators................ 12.01 13.58 18.24 23.15 25.95 Packaging and filling machine operators. 10.61 11.14 12.66 14.89 27.85 Assemblers.............................. 11.73 23.28 26.03 26.33 26.33 Transportation and material moving............ 9.00 11.91 16.54 22.24 25.46 Truck drivers........................... 11.50 14.84 19.25 24.44 25.88 Motor transportation, n.e.c............. 8.00 8.50 9.00 10.00 10.00 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 8.00 12.31 15.53 19.44 25.46 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 8.00 8.75 11.05 14.89 18.38 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 6.50 9.10 11.44 15.90 16.55 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ $8.15 $9.20 $12.60 $14.89 $18.65 Hand packers and packagers.............. 8.00 8.50 10.61 16.70 16.70 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 8.45 8.50 10.50 12.44 18.80 Service......................................... 5.50 7.75 9.50 11.90 17.12 Protective service........................ 8.50 17.10 17.12 17.12 19.66 Food service.............................. 2.13 5.15 8.50 10.35 12.88 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.13 2.13 2.58 5.50 7.00 Waiters and waitresses.................. 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.58 4.38 Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants......... 5.15 5.50 6.50 8.00 10.20 Other food service....................... 7.50 8.40 9.63 12.00 14.00 Supervisors, food preparation and service.............................. 10.13 11.26 12.00 15.50 17.65 Cooks................................... 8.00 9.50 10.50 12.88 14.00 Kitchen workers, food preparation....... 8.01 8.50 9.15 12.02 14.05 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 6.00 7.50 8.00 9.29 9.50 Health service............................ 8.00 9.45 10.26 11.67 13.36 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 7.75 9.00 10.00 11.60 12.84 Cleaning and building service............. 7.50 8.75 9.50 10.41 13.98 Maids and housemen...................... 7.25 7.50 9.00 9.41 10.12 Janitors and cleaners................... 8.03 9.00 9.65 10.94 15.76 Personal service.......................... 6.00 6.94 8.50 10.50 11.50 Service, n.e.c.......................... 7.50 8.00 9.00 11.47 12.50 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 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2003 State and local government Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $9.81 $12.30 $17.81 $24.70 $35.02 All excluding sales........................... 9.81 12.31 17.81 24.74 35.02 White collar.................................... 10.67 13.70 19.88 28.23 36.98 White collar excluding sales................ 10.67 13.70 19.89 28.24 36.98 Professional specialty and technical.......... 14.39 18.85 22.97 31.50 37.64 Professional specialty...................... 15.13 19.52 24.13 32.50 37.76 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists...... - - - - - Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ 18.06 20.14 21.88 27.43 39.93 Registered nurses....................... 19.00 20.80 21.70 25.63 29.58 Teachers, college and university.......... 19.61 23.06 33.32 39.82 52.89 Teachers, except college and university... 18.85 21.68 27.05 34.50 37.76 Elementary school teachers.............. 21.50 24.57 30.15 36.42 39.79 Secondary school teachers............... 21.17 22.81 27.64 35.66 39.29 Teachers, n.e.c......................... 16.33 20.04 23.59 30.75 35.81 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... 18.34 24.04 35.02 35.02 35.02 Librarians.............................. 18.34 24.04 35.02 35.02 35.02 Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. 13.19 14.07 16.00 19.89 21.18 Social workers.......................... 13.19 13.70 15.38 18.90 19.89 Lawyers and judges........................ - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 11.86 13.41 17.96 21.21 25.34 Licensed practical nurses............... 7.91 8.72 13.61 16.80 18.77 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 14.90 16.89 20.57 36.55 44.07 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 15.58 18.80 25.18 37.71 45.02 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 19.09 25.18 36.03 43.43 54.25 Management related........................ 12.69 14.36 15.12 16.67 20.00 Sales......................................... - - - - - Administrative support, including clerical.... 9.14 10.25 11.72 13.91 16.82 Secretaries............................. 10.50 10.62 12.72 15.05 16.55 Library clerks.......................... 6.80 7.80 8.33 9.12 10.22 Records clerks, n.e.c................... 10.13 10.82 12.47 14.58 17.26 General office clerks................... 9.07 10.01 11.55 14.09 16.32 Teachers' aides......................... 8.80 9.76 10.77 11.96 12.38 Blue collar..................................... 10.82 13.43 15.98 19.84 25.96 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 13.75 16.09 18.94 22.18 28.56 Transportation and material moving............ $10.40 $11.73 $13.99 $15.13 $20.49 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 9.07 10.82 13.55 15.48 16.67 Service......................................... 8.26 9.73 13.48 18.61 24.28 Protective service........................ 12.21 14.25 18.01 22.41 28.12 Firefighting............................ 12.66 14.93 17.88 20.41 22.30 Food service.............................. 6.49 7.40 8.47 9.45 11.25 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... 6.65 7.61 8.55 9.53 11.85 Health service............................ - - - - - Cleaning and building service............. $9.47 $9.87 $11.10 $14.97 $18.61 Janitors and cleaners................... 9.55 9.87 10.78 14.30 16.22 Personal service.......................... 8.26 8.26 8.68 9.14 11.91 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 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2003 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $9.50 $12.00 $17.07 $24.83 $33.74 All excluding sales........................... 9.60 12.21 17.12 25.00 33.92 White collar.................................... 10.50 13.43 19.00 27.56 37.96 White collar excluding sales................ 11.01 14.00 19.64 28.41 38.14 Professional specialty and technical.......... 15.38 19.08 23.87 32.32 39.13 Professional specialty...................... 17.02 20.42 25.68 34.43 40.41 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 22.92 27.06 32.21 38.75 45.35 Civil engineers......................... 21.87 29.71 36.64 46.51 49.79 Electrical and electronic engineers..... 24.54 27.00 33.59 38.55 41.20 Engineers, n.e.c........................ 22.84 25.50 30.25 34.12 38.75 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 19.58 22.69 28.40 36.06 49.89 Computer systems analysts and scientists 20.02 23.29 30.18 37.51 50.61 Operations and systems researchers and analysts............................. 18.57 21.31 25.73 25.73 30.69 Natural scientists........................ 13.95 16.35 21.02 27.95 52.13 Health related............................ 18.73 20.32 23.09 27.59 37.06 Registered nurses....................... 19.30 20.53 22.77 25.87 29.50 Teachers, college and university.......... 20.15 24.51 30.94 36.53 49.72 Medical science teachers................ 18.96 22.84 31.04 38.46 53.65 Teachers, except college and university... 17.03 21.51 26.46 34.01 37.76 Elementary school teachers.............. 21.55 24.74 30.01 36.42 39.79 Secondary school teachers............... 21.17 22.81 27.79 35.89 39.68 Teachers, n.e.c......................... 16.71 20.04 23.67 30.91 36.08 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. 12.25 13.70 16.29 18.61 21.18 Social workers.......................... 12.02 13.19 15.48 18.13 19.89 Lawyers and judges........................ - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 12.24 18.46 20.34 29.63 36.28 Editors and reporters................... 12.24 16.07 22.04 33.23 42.09 Technical................................... 12.61 15.41 17.42 21.21 26.18 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians.......................... 15.66 17.12 19.22 23.21 25.71 Radiological technicians................ 17.46 19.80 20.00 23.64 24.88 Licensed practical nurses............... 11.73 14.03 15.50 16.63 17.33 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................................ 10.20 12.93 15.41 17.96 18.75 Computer programmers.................... 18.85 20.32 24.06 27.99 32.60 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 14.38 18.53 25.60 36.52 50.74 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 15.58 20.99 28.89 41.83 52.56 Financial managers...................... 26.07 29.84 33.71 38.62 41.05 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 19.09 24.63 34.62 43.59 54.25 Managers, food servicing and lodging establishments....................... 11.54 14.38 15.63 21.39 37.98 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 15.97 25.03 34.13 47.25 52.56 Management related........................ 13.82 15.50 21.52 30.22 37.96 Other financial officers................ $14.42 $18.22 $30.22 $38.46 $51.28 Management analysts..................... 18.53 20.17 26.04 37.96 43.56 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists.......................... 12.00 14.42 18.68 21.71 27.11 Management related, n.e.c............... 13.67 14.42 17.79 25.60 31.35 Sales......................................... 7.95 9.41 11.73 19.09 26.78 Supervisors, sales...................... 8.75 11.60 19.09 23.50 43.50 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale......... 15.46 18.75 22.35 41.68 52.70 Sales workers, other commodities........ 7.57 8.60 10.52 13.65 18.74 Cashiers................................ 7.50 7.88 9.20 10.64 11.84 Administrative support, including clerical.... 9.64 11.00 12.98 15.58 18.70 Supervisors, general office............. 10.55 15.38 21.47 22.75 28.85 Secretaries............................. 10.62 11.93 14.64 16.93 19.29 Order clerks............................ 9.35 10.50 12.50 15.62 19.55 Records clerks, n.e.c................... 10.06 10.82 12.69 17.26 18.60 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 10.25 11.88 13.32 14.87 15.71 Billing clerks.......................... 11.75 12.81 15.40 16.86 18.33 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 11.00 13.54 14.34 15.64 18.86 General office clerks................... 10.00 11.86 14.30 16.41 17.65 Teachers' aides......................... 8.80 9.76 10.75 11.94 12.38 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 9.20 10.75 12.83 16.00 18.32 Blue collar..................................... 9.47 12.00 16.59 23.28 26.33 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 14.42 17.00 20.66 26.56 30.88 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers.... 16.63 20.28 21.04 25.96 29.90 Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics............................ 12.09 15.50 18.85 20.11 20.47 Heavy equipment mechanics............... 14.90 15.27 18.75 19.86 20.72 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 16.39 17.99 20.08 21.00 21.71 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 16.63 20.28 22.60 25.04 28.08 Electricians............................ 19.49 24.90 30.11 33.73 33.73 Supervisors, production................. 14.47 20.53 25.46 28.56 29.39 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 10.25 11.00 15.53 25.80 26.33 Molding and casting machine operators... 7.25 7.75 10.36 11.00 17.06 Printing press operators................ 12.01 13.58 18.24 23.15 25.95 Packaging and filling machine operators. 10.61 11.14 12.66 14.89 27.85 Assemblers.............................. 11.75 23.28 26.03 26.33 26.33 Transportation and material moving............ 9.50 12.51 17.65 22.81 25.46 Truck drivers........................... 11.50 14.84 19.25 24.44 25.88 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 8.00 11.80 15.53 20.36 25.46 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 8.15 9.48 12.00 15.58 18.65 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................................. $7.38 $8.00 $8.53 $12.70 $15.47 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 9.00 10.42 13.67 16.07 16.91 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 8.15 9.20 12.98 14.89 18.65 Hand packers and packagers.............. 8.00 8.50 11.02 16.70 16.70 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 8.50 8.50 10.50 14.38 18.17 Service......................................... 7.79 9.06 10.91 16.22 19.66 Protective service........................ 12.31 15.99 17.12 20.82 24.86 Firefighting............................ 12.66 14.93 17.88 20.41 22.30 Food service.............................. 2.13 7.92 9.27 12.00 14.00 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.13 2.13 2.13 4.11 10.20 Other food service....................... 7.75 8.50 9.63 12.02 14.05 Supervisors, food preparation and service.............................. 10.13 11.33 12.00 15.50 17.65 Cooks................................... 8.26 9.00 10.35 12.88 14.00 Health service............................ 9.25 9.79 10.45 12.17 13.63 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 9.00 9.75 10.40 12.03 13.24 Cleaning and building service............. 7.53 9.08 9.87 11.76 16.22 Maids and housemen...................... 7.25 7.50 9.00 9.41 9.79 Janitors and cleaners................... 8.50 9.50 10.10 12.13 16.22 Personal service.......................... 6.87 8.26 9.00 10.50 12.50 Service, n.e.c.......................... 7.50 8.00 9.00 11.47 12.50 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 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-5. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2003 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $6.00 $7.00 $8.91 $11.91 $19.75 All excluding sales........................... 5.50 7.00 9.50 12.85 21.95 White collar.................................... 6.75 8.00 10.67 17.33 25.87 White collar excluding sales................ 8.25 10.67 14.30 22.63 27.80 Professional specialty and technical.......... 10.67 13.72 20.67 26.95 31.51 Professional specialty...................... 10.67 17.48 23.12 27.28 33.00 Health related............................ 19.94 22.76 26.12 29.50 33.31 Registered nurses....................... 20.38 23.52 26.78 30.00 33.31 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... 10.00 10.67 10.67 11.87 19.63 Teachers, n.e.c......................... 10.00 10.00 11.87 19.63 19.63 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 6.25 6.25 9.00 12.98 13.43 Technical................................... 10.74 11.62 14.00 16.00 18.50 Licensed practical nurses............... 11.62 13.39 14.41 16.44 18.00 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... - - - - - Executives, administrators, and managers.. - - - - - Management related........................ - - - - - Sales......................................... 6.25 7.00 8.00 9.47 11.45 Sales workers, other commodities........ 6.00 6.02 8.10 10.21 15.05 Cashiers................................ 6.25 6.75 7.33 8.35 9.55 Administrative support, including clerical.... 7.50 8.50 10.67 11.75 13.07 Blue collar..................................... 6.25 8.10 9.50 11.91 12.81 Precision production, craft, and repair....... - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. - - - - - Transportation and material moving............ - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 6.00 6.50 8.45 9.90 13.69 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.75 6.10 6.50 9.10 14.21 Service......................................... 2.13 6.00 7.25 8.94 10.41 Protective service........................ 6.95 7.28 8.75 9.05 13.27 Food service.............................. 2.13 2.58 6.25 8.35 10.00 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.13 2.13 2.58 6.00 6.91 Waiters and waitresses.................. 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.58 5.15 Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants......... 5.15 5.50 6.00 6.68 8.00 Other food service....................... 6.25 7.00 8.35 9.85 10.30 Cooks................................... 7.64 9.00 10.00 10.72 12.00 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 5.15 7.00 8.00 8.91 9.50 Health service............................ $7.25 $7.75 $8.00 $9.84 $11.00 Cleaning and building service............. 6.00 7.35 10.41 10.41 10.50 Personal service.......................... 6.00 6.50 7.54 8.75 10.25 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 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2003 Full-time and part-time workers Occupational group Private State and Total industry local government All occupations....................................................... 429,600 333,000 96,600 All excluding sales............................................. 397,600 301,000 96,500 White collar........................................................ 254,700 185,200 69,500 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 222,700 153,300 69,400 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 106,300 62,400 43,900 Professional specialty.......................................... 89,900 49,900 39,900 Technical....................................................... 16,400 12,500 3,900 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 41,700 34,400 7,300 Sales............................................................. 32,000 31,900 - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 74,700 56,400 18,300 Blue collar......................................................... 103,600 97,300 6,300 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 28,100 24,900 3,300 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 28,100 28,100 – Transportation and material moving................................ 21,300 19,400 1,900 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 26,000 24,900 1,200 Service............................................................. 71,300 50,500 20,800 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. Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the survey. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria.