NC BL 07/00/1999 Table: Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY, Bulletin 3095-24, July 1998 Table A-1. Hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, all workers(2), all industries, Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY, July 1998 All industries Occupation(3) Percentiles Mean RSE 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All occupations....................................................... $15.73 2.4% $6.82 $9.05 $13.79 $19.91 $26.31 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 16.01 2.5 7.00 9.31 14.04 20.06 26.60 White-collar occupations............................................ 17.96 2.9 7.35 10.00 14.72 22.55 31.78 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 18.83 2.9 8.00 10.96 15.86 23.42 33.32 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 23.96 3.0 12.05 15.89 20.78 28.62 40.35 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 26.47 3.1 14.87 18.43 22.97 31.23 43.65 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 27.21 5.8 18.44 22.83 26.78 31.25 35.84 Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 25.63 2.4 21.30 24.76 25.70 26.55 29.21 Industrial engineers........................................ 22.12 11.4 15.71 17.07 21.21 27.56 28.88 Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 30.85 8.3 19.02 26.78 30.44 35.84 44.32 Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 23.44 4.3 20.00 21.35 22.84 24.62 29.66 Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 22.89 4.5 20.00 21.35 22.07 23.95 28.85 Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 21.16 3.6 15.44 17.62 19.62 21.93 27.71 Registered nurses........................................... 18.81 1.7 15.74 17.21 18.91 20.62 21.76 Pharmacists................................................. 26.54 3.5 20.78 25.60 26.76 27.36 30.16 Teachers, college and university.............................. 44.11 13.0 22.83 29.47 36.17 57.30 80.93 Teachers, post secondary N.E.C.............................. 33.49 3.1 25.68 27.63 34.67 37.15 42.93 Teachers, except college and university....................... 32.53 4.0 15.60 23.15 31.59 42.28 50.64 Elementary school teachers.................................. 33.42 6.7 15.70 22.91 32.82 43.26 52.41 Secondary school teachers................................... 31.55 4.4 18.76 23.86 30.34 40.70 45.22 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 21.63 16.2 14.04 14.04 19.50 22.94 46.81 Librarians.................................................. 21.63 16.2 14.04 14.04 19.50 22.94 46.81 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 15.12 12.0 7.60 10.78 14.87 19.73 22.97 Social workers.............................................. 14.87 14.0 7.24 9.43 14.87 19.73 24.33 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 19.92 8.0 11.74 15.90 18.48 22.09 28.07 Technical occupations........................................... 14.53 3.3 10.41 11.54 14.17 16.50 18.78 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 17.18 4.4 11.72 16.49 17.51 18.65 19.09 Licensed practical nurses................................... 12.30 3.2 9.79 11.00 12.60 13.74 14.21 Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 12.98 5.9 10.41 11.22 11.59 15.46 16.17 Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 15.61 11.7 10.22 10.94 17.79 18.15 19.20 Drafters.................................................... 17.61 8.0 15.14 15.14 16.00 18.15 24.46 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 27.06 4.8 14.93 19.96 25.11 30.88 41.25 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 29.55 6.0 19.31 22.50 26.45 33.32 43.70 Financial managers.......................................... 35.67 16.9 22.50 27.38 29.07 34.88 43.70 Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations....... 31.26 8.6 20.79 26.37 30.93 35.61 41.25 Administrators, education and related fields................ 26.92 11.3 11.14 23.50 26.00 27.04 41.43 Managers, service organizations, N.E.C...................... 21.32 7.0 13.80 19.76 23.58 25.11 25.11 Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 31.72 9.3 20.94 22.49 29.58 34.27 47.26 Management related occupations................................ 22.65 7.8 14.42 16.15 21.77 26.73 34.93 Accountants and auditors.................................... $20.33 7.2% $15.86 $16.88 $18.74 $24.94 $27.43 Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 18.66 9.1 11.55 14.42 17.13 23.72 26.33 Sales occupations................................................. 11.53 6.8 5.50 7.00 9.37 13.41 22.29 Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. 13.48 14.5 8.70 9.75 10.75 13.35 20.99 Sales workers, other commodities............................ 7.84 3.9 5.22 5.70 7.30 10.00 10.00 Cashiers.................................................... 7.10 8.8 5.25 5.40 5.93 7.50 9.80 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 11.49 2.7 7.00 8.25 10.76 13.69 16.54 Supervisors, financial records processing................... 15.17 7.5 12.10 12.50 12.61 18.72 18.72 Computer operators.......................................... 15.75 6.9 10.50 13.61 17.13 17.95 18.38 Secretaries................................................. 12.64 4.9 8.08 10.00 12.59 14.97 16.54 Typists..................................................... 12.20 4.5 9.81 10.66 11.80 13.39 15.17 Receptionists............................................... 8.65 5.5 7.00 8.25 8.50 8.50 9.77 Information clerks, N.E.C................................... 10.69 7.5 7.80 8.25 9.66 14.77 14.77 Order clerks................................................ 10.63 7.8 6.50 8.99 10.39 12.86 13.21 Library clerks.............................................. 11.75 9.5 7.88 11.27 12.63 13.77 14.17 Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 10.44 6.1 7.76 9.15 10.08 12.35 13.14 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 13.98 6.9 9.88 11.29 12.60 14.48 21.64 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 11.43 5.5 9.71 10.71 10.71 12.00 12.55 General office clerks....................................... 11.12 5.0 7.00 8.80 11.44 12.47 15.42 Data entry keyers........................................... 9.32 6.9 7.00 7.00 8.00 11.45 12.63 Teachers' aides............................................. 8.67 5.2 6.94 7.22 7.96 10.01 10.98 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 9.19 4.9 5.75 7.50 8.80 11.00 13.75 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 14.54 3.6 7.00 9.64 14.25 19.02 21.36 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 18.76 2.4 12.75 15.22 18.03 22.16 25.17 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 24.60 6.4 19.24 21.50 23.44 27.69 31.25 Automobile mechanics........................................ 16.84 9.6 13.96 14.05 15.77 16.90 22.32 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 19.38 6.4 14.73 16.97 17.79 24.36 24.37 Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 17.55 8.1 13.01 14.53 16.15 21.17 25.05 Supervisors, production occupations......................... 21.44 5.9 16.62 17.85 19.71 24.23 28.70 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.71 4.6 6.61 8.85 13.71 19.71 21.01 Molding and casting machine operators....................... 10.52 17.4 7.25 8.25 8.25 11.63 18.31 Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators............... 6.92 3.4 5.50 6.50 6.75 7.00 8.32 Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 10.81 5.1 7.63 8.39 10.23 13.55 13.88 Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 12.16 7.6 8.00 9.75 12.01 14.69 17.33 Welders and cutters......................................... 16.31 8.2 10.30 13.47 15.65 21.01 21.01 Assemblers.................................................. 13.58 10.6 5.54 7.45 13.71 20.63 20.79 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 12.21 18.2 6.00 6.45 9.41 16.79 20.63 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 13.85 6.7 8.50 10.10 14.01 16.14 19.21 Truck drivers............................................... 12.61 7.7 8.57 9.64 12.31 14.45 18.49 Bus drivers................................................. 11.87 14.5 7.25 8.94 10.20 16.07 16.26 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 15.40 5.2 11.90 13.90 14.31 15.45 20.79 Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C.... 15.16 6.7 13.06 13.06 14.45 18.49 18.49 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.87 6.6 5.88 6.92 8.41 12.01 16.15 Production helpers.......................................... 9.74 18.4 6.50 6.75 7.25 11.85 16.15 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. $8.53 15.1% $5.40 $5.80 $6.70 $8.83 $15.03 Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 13.55 8.5 8.39 9.71 13.24 18.82 19.02 Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 6.94 12.1 3.75 5.75 6.00 9.82 9.89 Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.97 14.1 6.50 7.50 7.50 8.31 13.83 Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 10.45 9.3 6.50 7.00 10.80 12.40 14.62 Service occupations................................................. 10.51 4.4 5.40 6.68 8.80 13.40 18.52 Protective service occupations................................ 19.00 3.9 11.79 16.94 18.52 21.41 24.81 Guards and police except public service..................... 12.82 16.6 7.66 8.06 11.37 18.00 19.78 Food service occupations...................................... 5.99 7.7 2.90 3.51 5.50 7.85 9.55 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.89 19.6 2.90 2.90 2.90 2.90 8.50 Cooks....................................................... 8.86 6.6 6.50 7.50 9.55 9.63 10.50 Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 6.08 2.9 5.15 5.35 6.25 6.70 6.80 Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 6.48 6.9 5.15 5.20 5.85 7.93 8.32 Health service occupations.................................... $8.83 3.8% $6.30 $6.76 $7.96 $10.02 $13.01 Health aides, except nursing................................ 10.16 13.8 6.60 7.10 10.58 12.71 14.41 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 8.66 3.9 6.11 6.68 7.95 9.46 12.60 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 9.84 4.4 5.90 8.15 9.33 11.44 13.78 Maids and housemen.......................................... 7.63 9.6 5.46 5.50 8.32 8.90 9.67 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 10.06 4.7 6.21 8.17 9.58 11.70 14.45 Personal service occupations.................................. 9.72 10.6 5.75 6.85 8.82 13.40 14.29 Welfare service aides....................................... 7.73 3.4 6.13 6.75 7.51 8.82 9.08 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. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table A-2. Hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, all workers(2), private industry and State and local government, Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY, July 1998 Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Percentiles Percentiles Mean RSE Mean RSE 10 25 Median 75 90 10 25 Median 75 90 50 50 All occupations....................................................... $14.44 3.0% $6.50 $8.39 $12.50 $19.24 $24.36 $20.19 3.2% $10.63 $13.01 $16.30 $23.44 $36.44 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 14.70 3.2 6.70 8.54 13.06 19.61 24.38 20.22 3.2 10.52 13.01 16.30 23.52 36.68 White-collar occupations............................................ 15.97 3.9 7.00 9.15 13.00 20.62 27.89 23.40 4.3 11.44 13.69 19.04 29.19 42.70 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 16.84 4.0 7.53 9.74 14.21 21.06 28.75 23.51 4.4 11.36 13.58 19.04 29.47 42.98 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 19.91 4.1 11.23 14.35 18.65 23.94 30.12 30.16 4.9 14.50 19.30 26.60 38.33 49.27 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 22.14 4.3 12.64 17.18 20.77 26.76 31.24 31.66 4.6 17.05 20.78 28.07 39.81 50.80 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 27.48 6.2 17.39 22.83 26.91 31.25 36.20 - - - - - - - Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 25.63 2.4 21.30 24.76 25.70 26.55 29.21 - - - - - - - Industrial engineers........................................ 22.12 11.4 15.71 17.07 21.21 27.56 28.88 - - - - - - - Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 30.85 8.3 19.02 26.78 30.44 35.84 44.32 - - - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 24.14 7.9 19.49 20.67 23.94 28.73 30.03 - - - - - - - Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 20.53 3.7 14.08 17.54 19.84 21.82 26.76 22.85 8.4 17.05 17.93 19.41 22.02 38.86 Registered nurses........................................... 18.86 2.0 15.44 17.48 19.20 20.82 21.54 18.67 2.9 16.64 17.05 18.91 19.62 21.93 Pharmacists................................................. 27.04 3.1 25.19 25.76 26.76 27.97 30.16 - - - - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. 30.45 9.8 19.04 26.09 30.24 34.70 39.04 49.65 15.4 28.75 31.71 40.64 67.40 80.93 Teachers, except college and university....................... 17.93 12.0 11.23 13.04 16.90 22.08 25.56 34.28 4.0 19.34 25.17 32.68 43.83 51.38 Elementary school teachers.................................. - - - - - - - 37.07 4.1 22.16 28.40 37.99 45.91 52.60 Secondary school teachers................................... - - - - - - - 32.73 4.2 20.61 24.90 31.47 41.39 45.55 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 12.75 16.6 7.24 8.77 12.34 15.64 19.73 19.15 8.6 14.87 15.51 18.29 24.33 24.33 Social workers.............................................. 12.33 18.9 7.24 8.16 12.34 15.50 19.73 19.30 9.8 14.87 14.87 17.13 24.33 24.33 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 19.45 8.1 12.05 15.38 17.91 21.63 25.00 - - - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 14.38 3.5 10.32 11.36 14.21 17.01 18.65 15.22 9.1 11.98 12.94 14.17 16.17 21.59 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 17.55 3.6 14.68 16.87 17.54 18.65 19.09 - - - - - - - Licensed practical nurses................................... 12.13 3.9 9.71 10.42 12.20 13.86 14.21 - - - - - - - Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 12.43 5.8 10.41 11.22 11.36 14.00 16.06 - - - - - - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 15.69 12.5 10.22 10.94 17.79 18.15 19.37 - - - - - - - Drafters.................................................... 17.61 8.0 15.14 15.14 16.00 18.15 24.46 - - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 28.27 5.4 16.15 20.94 25.19 32.51 42.84 22.94 7.4 14.93 17.44 23.72 26.73 30.60 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 30.27 6.8 19.91 22.50 26.45 33.32 45.67 26.08 9.6 12.58 23.50 26.00 28.34 36.10 Financial managers.......................................... 35.67 16.9 22.50 27.38 29.07 34.88 43.70 - - - - - - - Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations....... 31.26 8.6 20.79 26.37 30.93 35.61 41.25 - - - - - - - Administrators, education and related fields................ - - - - - - - 29.47 10.2 23.50 25.92 26.00 34.95 41.43 Managers, service organizations, N.E.C...................... 21.32 7.0 13.80 19.76 23.58 25.11 25.11 - - - - - - - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 31.79 9.9 20.94 22.49 29.13 34.27 47.26 - - - - - - - Management related occupations................................ 23.91 9.5 13.26 16.88 22.89 28.39 34.93 20.02 9.1 14.93 14.93 18.80 23.72 26.73 Accountants and auditors.................................... 20.44 7.6 15.86 16.88 18.78 25.76 27.43 - - - - - - - Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 18.96 12.3 11.55 11.55 14.42 26.33 30.15 - - - - - - - Sales occupations................................................. 11.25 6.9 5.50 6.85 9.15 12.25 22.29 - - - - - - - Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. $13.48 14.5% $8.70 $9.75 $10.75 $13.35 $20.99 - - - - - - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 7.84 3.9 5.22 5.70 7.30 10.00 10.00 - - - - - - - Cashiers.................................................... 6.50 4.8 5.25 5.40 5.90 7.00 8.86 - - - - - - - Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 10.90 2.7 7.00 8.00 9.87 12.61 16.38 $13.43 5.8% $8.00 $11.29 $13.00 $15.27 $16.73 Supervisors, financial records processing................... 15.17 7.5 12.10 12.50 12.61 18.72 18.72 - - - - - - - Secretaries................................................. 11.71 5.6 8.00 8.95 11.13 13.30 16.12 14.85 4.6 12.38 13.17 15.27 16.05 18.04 Typists..................................................... - - - - - - - 12.78 5.2 10.91 11.80 12.48 14.01 15.17 Receptionists............................................... 8.65 5.5 7.00 8.25 8.50 8.50 9.77 - - - - - - - Information clerks, N.E.C................................... 10.25 6.8 7.64 8.25 9.07 11.78 14.77 - - - - - - - Order clerks................................................ 10.63 7.8 6.50 8.99 10.39 12.86 13.21 - - - - - - - Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 10.15 6.2 7.75 8.67 9.85 11.49 13.18 - - - - - - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.61 9.5 9.04 11.00 12.44 21.64 22.72 12.73 2.5 11.29 11.55 13.01 13.35 13.95 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 11.43 5.5 9.71 10.71 10.71 12.00 12.55 - - - - - - - General office clerks....................................... 10.63 9.7 7.00 7.50 9.28 13.66 16.33 11.49 4.6 7.35 10.88 12.21 12.41 14.32 Data entry keyers........................................... 8.42 8.2 7.00 7.00 7.00 8.00 14.48 - - - - - - - Teachers' aides............................................. - - - - - - - 8.97 5.7 6.94 7.39 8.54 10.35 11.11 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 9.12 5.1 5.70 7.25 8.80 10.25 13.75 - - - - - - - Blue-collar occupations............................................. 14.50 4.0 7.00 9.20 14.05 19.61 21.36 14.89 5.2 10.97 12.99 15.22 16.26 18.35 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 19.17 2.5 13.00 15.71 19.24 24.00 25.63 15.93 5.8 12.11 13.96 15.70 17.13 18.73 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 19.38 6.4 14.73 16.97 17.79 24.36 24.37 - - - - - - - Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 20.15 6.9 15.36 17.33 19.20 25.05 25.05 - - - - - - - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 21.44 5.9 16.62 17.85 19.71 24.23 28.70 - - - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.69 4.7 6.60 8.76 13.71 19.71 21.01 - - - - - - - Molding and casting machine operators....................... 10.52 17.4 7.25 8.25 8.25 11.63 18.31 - - - - - - - Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators............... 6.92 3.4 5.50 6.50 6.75 7.00 8.32 - - - - - - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 10.81 5.1 7.63 8.39 10.23 13.55 13.88 - - - - - - - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 11.93 7.8 8.00 9.69 12.01 14.53 17.17 - - - - - - - Welders and cutters......................................... 16.31 8.2 10.30 13.47 15.65 21.01 21.01 - - - - - - - Assemblers.................................................. 13.58 10.6 5.54 7.45 13.71 20.63 20.79 - - - - - - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 12.21 18.2 6.00 6.45 9.41 16.79 20.63 - - - - - - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 13.38 8.7 8.00 9.51 13.18 16.09 18.49 15.20 4.4 12.01 13.71 15.36 16.17 20.66 Truck drivers............................................... 12.45 9.1 8.00 9.35 11.37 15.90 18.49 - - - - - - - Bus drivers................................................. - - - - - - - 14.48 2.3 8.31 13.45 16.07 16.17 16.26 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 15.40 5.2 11.90 13.90 14.31 15.45 20.79 - - - - - - - Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C.... 15.16 7.6 13.06 13.06 14.21 18.49 18.49 - - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.66 7.2 5.93 6.75 8.00 11.34 16.15 11.75 7.1 5.57 11.06 12.39 12.99 16.84 Production helpers.......................................... 9.74 18.4 6.50 6.75 7.25 11.85 16.15 - - - - - - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.53 15.1 5.40 5.80 6.70 8.83 15.03 - - - - - - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 13.55 8.5 8.39 9.71 13.24 18.82 19.02 - - - - - - - Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 6.94 12.1 3.75 5.75 6.00 9.82 9.89 - - - - - - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.97 14.1 6.50 7.50 7.50 8.31 13.83 - - - - - - - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 9.58 12.0 6.50 7.00 10.19 11.16 14.27 12.17 9.5 6.92 10.74 12.22 14.51 16.84 Service occupations................................................. 7.59 3.9 5.15 6.00 7.37 8.88 10.27 15.46 4.2 8.92 11.44 14.29 18.77 23.18 Protective service occupations................................ $12.25 18.5% $7.66 $7.66 $8.60 $18.00 $20.00 $19.73 3.5% $16.54 $17.22 $19.18 $23.18 $25.22 Guards and police except public service..................... 11.19 19.4 7.20 7.66 8.60 16.00 18.00 - - - - - - - Food service occupations...................................... 5.95 7.7 2.90 2.90 5.50 7.74 9.55 - - - - - - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.89 19.6 2.90 2.90 2.90 2.90 8.50 - - - - - - - Cooks....................................................... 8.86 6.6 6.50 7.50 9.55 9.63 10.50 - - - - - - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 6.08 2.9 5.15 5.35 6.25 6.70 6.80 - - - - - - - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 6.36 6.9 5.15 5.20 5.65 7.89 8.32 - - - - - - - Health service occupations.................................... 7.71 3.0 6.00 6.60 7.47 8.61 9.57 13.08 5.4 10.45 11.56 12.60 13.75 16.93 Health aides, except nursing................................ 9.45 15.1 6.60 7.03 8.14 11.26 14.41 - - - - - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 7.49 2.9 5.82 6.59 7.39 8.61 9.18 13.11 6.1 10.39 11.56 12.48 13.75 16.97 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 9.06 5.2 5.53 7.37 8.86 10.27 13.78 11.09 6.4 8.17 9.31 11.32 12.51 14.52 Maids and housemen.......................................... 7.41 10.3 5.46 5.50 8.32 8.90 9.20 - - - - - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 9.17 5.5 6.06 7.50 8.80 10.42 12.14 11.13 6.6 8.17 9.31 11.44 12.56 14.52 Personal service occupations.................................. 7.92 7.5 5.70 6.32 7.38 8.89 11.56 11.41 11.9 6.18 8.21 11.57 14.29 14.29 Welfare service aides....................................... 7.73 3.4 6.13 6.75 7.51 8.82 9.08 - - - - - - - 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. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table A-3. Hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers(2), all industries, Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY, July 1998 All industries Full-time Part-time Occupation(3) Percentiles Percentiles Mean RSE Mean RSE 10 25 Median 75 90 10 25 Median 75 90 50 50 All occupations....................................................... $16.85 2.7% $7.82 $10.29 $14.72 $20.79 $27.38 $8.74 3.2% $5.30 $6.10 $7.25 $9.83 $14.50 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 17.01 2.8 7.91 10.49 14.92 20.79 27.56 9.04 3.7 5.35 6.45 7.25 10.30 15.29 White-collar occupations............................................ 19.17 3.0 8.45 11.07 16.06 23.84 33.53 10.16 4.7 5.50 6.75 8.03 12.50 17.79 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 19.73 3.1 8.50 11.55 16.46 24.75 34.42 11.45 6.4 6.50 7.25 9.60 14.01 18.67 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 24.66 3.2 12.12 16.17 21.48 29.77 41.11 16.86 5.2 10.41 13.17 16.75 19.31 20.62 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 27.17 3.3 15.30 19.02 24.10 32.11 43.83 18.43 5.8 13.17 15.75 18.00 20.00 21.76 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 27.21 5.8 18.44 22.83 26.78 31.25 35.84 - - - - - - - Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 25.63 2.4 21.30 24.76 25.70 26.55 29.21 - - - - - - - Industrial engineers........................................ 22.12 11.4 15.71 17.07 21.21 27.56 28.88 - - - - - - - Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 30.85 8.3 19.02 26.78 30.44 35.84 44.32 - - - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 23.65 4.0 20.67 21.44 23.17 24.90 29.66 - - - - - - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 23.11 4.2 20.15 21.35 22.07 24.06 28.85 - - - - - - - Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 21.59 4.1 15.02 18.06 20.35 24.61 29.48 19.51 6.0 15.91 17.01 18.43 20.33 21.41 Registered nurses........................................... 18.97 2.2 15.62 17.35 19.08 20.82 21.91 18.41 1.5 15.92 17.01 18.43 20.11 20.94 Pharmacists................................................. 26.54 3.5 20.78 25.60 26.76 27.36 30.16 - - - - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. 44.93 13.1 23.24 29.87 36.22 66.36 80.93 24.37 6.3 15.75 23.50 26.00 26.00 26.00 Teachers, except college and university....................... 33.69 3.9 18.39 24.33 32.11 42.98 50.95 11.12 15.5 5.15 5.50 13.17 13.75 14.50 Elementary school teachers.................................. 33.42 6.7 15.70 22.91 32.82 43.26 52.41 - - - - - - - Secondary school teachers................................... 31.55 4.4 18.76 23.86 30.34 40.70 45.22 - - - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 21.63 16.2 14.04 14.04 19.50 22.94 46.81 - - - - - - - Librarians.................................................. 21.63 16.2 14.04 14.04 19.50 22.94 46.81 - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 15.13 12.0 7.60 10.78 14.87 19.73 22.97 - - - - - - - Social workers.............................................. 14.88 14.0 7.24 9.43 14.87 19.73 24.33 - - - - - - - Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 20.12 8.0 12.05 16.85 18.95 22.09 28.07 - - - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 14.76 3.6 10.90 11.61 14.21 17.14 19.09 12.85 5.2 10.20 10.41 13.00 14.00 16.90 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 18.07 2.7 16.49 17.29 18.65 18.65 19.09 - - - - - - - Licensed practical nurses................................... 12.34 3.5 9.79 11.00 12.59 13.86 14.21 12.07 4.5 9.71 10.98 13.00 13.22 13.27 Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 13.19 6.7 11.22 11.22 11.75 16.06 16.17 - - - - - - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 15.69 12.5 10.22 10.94 17.79 18.15 19.37 - - - - - - - Drafters.................................................... 17.61 8.0 15.14 15.14 16.00 18.15 24.46 - - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 27.33 4.7 14.93 20.50 25.19 30.90 41.25 - - - - - - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 29.77 6.0 19.76 22.62 26.87 33.32 43.70 - - - - - - - Financial managers.......................................... 35.67 16.9 22.50 27.38 29.07 34.88 43.70 - - - - - - - Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations....... 31.26 8.6 20.79 26.37 30.93 35.61 41.25 - - - - - - - Administrators, education and related fields................ 27.42 11.4 11.14 24.44 26.00 27.04 41.43 - - - - - - - Managers, service organizations, N.E.C...................... 21.32 7.0 13.80 19.76 23.58 25.11 25.11 - - - - - - - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 31.72 9.3 20.94 22.49 29.58 34.27 47.26 - - - - - - - Management related occupations................................ $22.95 7.8% $14.49 $16.88 $22.50 $26.73 $34.93 - - - - - - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 20.33 7.2 15.86 16.88 18.74 24.94 27.43 - - - - - - - Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 19.60 10.6 11.55 14.93 17.13 24.35 26.92 - - - - - - - Sales occupations................................................. 13.73 7.0 7.00 8.86 10.75 17.26 22.88 $6.96 7.4% $5.25 $5.50 $6.15 $7.62 $9.53 Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. 13.48 14.5 8.70 9.75 10.75 13.35 20.99 - - - - - - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 8.57 3.9 5.15 6.45 9.05 10.00 10.00 6.91 4.5 5.40 5.50 6.29 8.00 9.21 Cashiers.................................................... 8.97 12.6 5.90 6.50 8.00 9.80 14.71 5.84 2.5 5.20 5.35 5.60 6.00 7.00 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 12.03 3.1 7.45 8.80 11.50 14.17 17.25 8.53 3.1 6.45 7.00 7.59 9.58 12.00 Supervisors, financial records processing................... 15.17 7.5 12.10 12.50 12.61 18.72 18.72 - - - - - - - Computer operators.......................................... 15.75 6.9 10.50 13.61 17.13 17.95 18.38 - - - - - - - Secretaries................................................. 12.69 5.0 8.08 10.00 12.59 15.23 16.71 10.65 8.2 8.00 9.00 11.94 11.94 11.94 Typists..................................................... 12.11 4.7 9.81 10.66 11.80 13.19 15.17 - - - - - - - Receptionists............................................... 9.03 6.3 8.25 8.50 8.50 8.50 9.77 - - - - - - - Information clerks, N.E.C................................... 10.83 7.7 8.00 8.30 9.85 14.77 14.77 - - - - - - - Order clerks................................................ 10.63 7.8 6.50 8.99 10.39 12.86 13.21 - - - - - - - Library clerks.............................................. 12.06 9.1 8.30 11.27 12.63 13.77 14.17 - - - - - - - Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 10.79 5.9 8.20 9.15 10.53 12.91 13.18 - - - - - - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.12 7.1 9.88 11.29 13.01 14.48 22.72 - - - - - - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 11.50 6.1 9.71 10.71 10.71 12.55 12.55 - - - - - - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 11.50 15.9 5.60 6.35 9.28 16.30 20.91 - - - - - - - General office clerks....................................... 11.92 4.7 8.59 10.29 12.02 12.99 16.06 7.77 8.4 5.15 6.25 7.25 8.82 10.50 Data entry keyers........................................... 9.62 7.6 7.00 7.00 8.90 11.47 12.95 - - - - - - - Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 10.12 5.4 7.59 8.00 9.44 12.50 13.75 7.65 7.4 5.40 5.75 7.20 8.95 11.00 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 15.11 3.8 7.50 10.59 14.73 19.61 21.47 8.19 5.2 5.50 6.00 7.21 9.45 13.37 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 18.84 2.4 13.00 15.25 18.15 22.16 25.17 - - - - - - - Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 24.60 6.4 19.24 21.50 23.44 27.69 31.25 - - - - - - - Automobile mechanics........................................ 16.84 9.6 13.96 14.05 15.77 16.90 22.32 - - - - - - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 19.38 6.4 14.73 16.97 17.79 24.36 24.37 - - - - - - - Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 17.55 8.1 13.01 14.53 16.15 21.17 25.05 - - - - - - - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 21.44 5.9 16.62 17.85 19.71 24.23 28.70 - - - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.10 4.7 7.06 9.56 13.88 20.63 21.01 6.46 2.7 5.50 6.00 6.25 7.00 7.50 Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 10.81 5.1 7.63 8.39 10.23 13.55 13.88 - - - - - - - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 12.22 7.6 8.00 9.75 12.01 14.69 17.33 - - - - - - - Welders and cutters......................................... 16.31 8.2 10.30 13.47 15.65 21.01 21.01 - - - - - - - Assemblers.................................................. 14.32 10.7 6.00 8.59 14.82 20.79 20.79 - - - - - - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 12.21 18.2 6.00 6.45 9.41 16.79 20.63 - - - - - - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 14.58 5.7 9.00 11.75 14.31 16.26 20.79 10.25 10.4 7.25 7.71 9.00 12.76 14.45 Truck drivers............................................... 12.52 8.2 8.50 9.35 11.78 15.90 18.49 - - - - - - - Bus drivers................................................. - - - - - - - 9.52 7.9 7.25 7.71 8.95 11.05 14.82 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 15.45 5.2 11.90 14.31 14.31 17.45 20.79 - - - - - - - Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C.... 15.21 7.4 13.06 13.06 14.21 18.49 18.49 - - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.46 7.9 6.41 7.25 8.85 12.82 16.84 7.18 6.4 5.25 5.60 6.35 7.62 9.82 Production helpers.......................................... $9.74 18.4% $6.50 $6.75 $7.25 $11.85 $16.15 - - - - - - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 10.83 21.6 5.85 6.65 8.75 14.97 20.63 - - - - - - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 14.75 9.7 9.71 11.68 13.61 18.83 20.79 $10.19 6.5% $7.00 $7.02 $9.47 $10.43 $18.81 Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.97 14.1 6.59 7.50 7.50 8.31 13.83 - - - - - - - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 10.72 10.3 6.50 7.25 10.80 12.44 14.62 - - - - - - - Service occupations................................................. 12.07 4.5 5.93 8.15 10.41 15.59 21.00 6.72 5.6 2.90 5.50 6.66 7.65 9.20 Protective service occupations................................ 19.42 3.9 15.70 17.14 18.82 23.18 25.08 12.67 18.6 6.40 7.28 11.79 18.00 20.00 Food service occupations...................................... 7.34 7.2 5.15 5.30 7.50 9.50 10.25 4.83 9.2 2.90 2.90 5.15 6.24 6.98 Waiters and waitresses...................................... - - - - - - - 3.46 11.7 2.90 2.90 2.90 2.90 5.06 Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 6.71 8.2 5.20 5.30 6.00 8.32 8.32 5.82 6.9 5.15 5.15 5.15 6.38 7.23 Health service occupations.................................... 9.76 4.5 5.82 7.63 8.88 11.59 13.75 7.43 2.9 6.35 6.60 6.96 7.65 9.06 Health aides, except nursing................................ 11.25 9.7 7.67 8.64 11.26 13.75 14.41 - - - - - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 9.55 5.0 5.75 7.50 8.72 11.56 13.40 7.37 2.7 6.30 6.66 6.96 7.65 9.06 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 10.12 4.7 6.21 8.29 9.65 11.87 14.25 7.76 8.6 5.90 5.90 7.37 9.33 10.12 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 10.42 5.0 7.00 8.29 10.41 12.03 14.52 7.39 10.6 5.90 5.90 6.50 9.20 9.33 Personal service occupations.................................. 10.61 10.5 5.93 7.54 10.46 14.29 14.29 7.13 6.0 5.55 6.00 6.75 8.81 9.08 Welfare service aides....................................... - - - - - - - 7.44 6.9 6.10 6.40 6.95 8.89 9.08 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. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 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. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings(1) and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only(2), all industries, Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY, July 1998 All industries Occupation(3) Mean Weekly earnings Mean Annual earnings weekly annual hours(4) hours Mean RSE Median Mean Median All occupations....................................................... 39.1 $660 2.7% $572 1,985 $33,453 $29,765 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 39.1 665 2.8 579 1,982 33,716 30,098 White-collar occupations............................................ 38.7 742 3.1 607 1,931 37,015 31,346 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 38.6 761 3.2 642 1,920 37,877 32,989 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 37.8 933 3.2 827 1,787 44,059 40,539 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 37.7 1,024 3.3 923 1,740 47,295 44,281 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 40.3 1,097 5.6 1,071 2,097 57,046 55,706 Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 41.0 1,050 0.6 1,032 2,131 54,621 53,643 Industrial engineers........................................ 40.3 891 11.4 848 2,096 46,350 44,117 Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 40.3 1,243 7.9 1,227 2,095 64,639 63,794 Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 39.6 937 4.3 926 2,060 48,729 48,131 Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 39.5 914 4.5 868 2,056 47,518 45,157 Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 38.2 824 4.4 776 1,960 42,313 40,369 Registered nurses........................................... 38.0 721 2.4 745 1,968 37,322 38,688 Pharmacists................................................. 39.1 1,039 4.4 1,070 2,035 54,024 55,661 Teachers, college and university.............................. 36.6 1,644 13.3 1,313 1,336 60,033 48,911 Teachers, except college and university....................... 35.3 1,189 3.2 1,140 1,398 47,081 45,305 Elementary school teachers.................................. 35.7 1,195 5.8 1,140 1,373 45,873 45,588 Secondary school teachers................................... 37.0 1,168 4.4 1,119 1,478 46,625 44,776 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 35.5 768 13.4 683 1,723 37,271 30,990 Librarians.................................................. 35.5 768 13.4 683 1,723 37,271 30,990 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 37.9 573 10.9 594 1,971 29,810 30,888 Social workers.............................................. 38.4 571 12.8 595 1,997 29,699 30,921 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 39.1 787 8.7 716 2,035 40,930 37,253 Technical occupations........................................... 38.4 567 3.7 533 1,997 29,467 27,710 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 37.7 682 2.3 699 1,963 35,463 36,368 Licensed practical nurses................................... 38.4 473 4.2 488 1,995 24,611 25,354 Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 37.7 497 5.1 449 1,959 25,844 23,338 Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 40.0 628 12.5 712 2,080 32,632 37,003 Drafters.................................................... 40.0 704 8.0 640 2,080 36,627 33,280 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 40.2 1,100 4.8 1,016 2,090 57,136 52,832 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 40.7 1,211 6.0 1,125 2,116 62,986 58,474 Financial managers.......................................... 41.3 1,475 17.9 1,163 2,150 76,693 60,468 Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations....... 41.3 1,290 9.2 1,269 2,145 67,059 65,978 Administrators, education and related fields................ 39.7 1,089 11.2 1,040 2,066 56,650 54,080 Managers, service organizations, N.E.C...................... 37.7 803 6.7 904 1,959 41,773 47,006 Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 42.0 1,333 8.2 1,260 2,186 69,325 65,494 Management related occupations................................ 39.4 905 7.9 871 2,046 46,967 45,282 Accountants and auditors.................................... 39.4 801 6.9 759 2,049 41,648 39,460 Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 38.8 760 9.8 685 2,016 39,504 35,630 Sales occupations................................................. 39.7 $545 7.0% $430 2,043 $28,050 $22,360 Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. 40.0 539 14.5 430 2,080 28,043 22,360 Sales workers, other commodities............................ 37.2 319 7.5 319 1,934 16,578 16,598 Cashiers.................................................... 39.7 356 12.8 320 2,022 18,133 16,640 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 38.7 466 2.9 447 2,005 24,124 23,088 Supervisors, financial records processing................... 40.0 607 7.5 504 2,080 31,546 26,230 Computer operators.......................................... 38.8 611 7.0 685 2,017 31,758 35,630 Secretaries................................................. 37.5 476 4.7 500 1,952 24,765 26,021 Typists..................................................... 37.8 457 5.6 443 1,963 23,786 23,010 Receptionists............................................... 39.6 358 5.3 340 2,060 18,602 17,680 Information clerks, N.E.C................................... 38.4 416 6.7 394 1,997 21,620 20,493 Order clerks................................................ 40.0 425 7.8 416 2,080 22,118 21,611 Library clerks.............................................. 37.8 455 14.3 505 1,880 22,661 26,270 Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 39.7 429 5.8 419 2,067 22,308 21,777 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 38.3 541 7.7 470 1,992 28,127 24,442 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 39.0 449 7.1 411 2,030 23,343 21,382 Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 39.4 453 15.6 379 2,049 23,559 19,698 General office clerks....................................... 38.9 464 4.9 458 2,024 24,120 23,816 Data entry keyers........................................... 39.6 381 7.2 356 2,061 19,825 18,512 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 39.3 398 5.8 352 2,001 20,257 18,304 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 39.8 602 3.8 589 2,068 31,243 30,597 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 39.9 752 2.4 726 2,076 39,114 37,752 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 40.0 984 6.4 938 2,080 51,161 48,755 Automobile mechanics........................................ 40.0 673 9.6 631 2,080 35,020 32,811 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 40.0 775 6.4 712 2,080 40,303 37,003 Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 39.8 698 8.1 646 2,069 36,322 33,592 Supervisors, production occupations......................... 40.0 858 5.9 788 2,080 44,598 40,997 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 39.8 561 4.7 552 2,069 29,174 28,683 Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 40.0 432 5.1 409 2,080 22,485 21,273 Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 39.8 487 7.7 450 2,071 25,314 23,420 Welders and cutters......................................... 40.0 653 8.2 626 2,080 33,931 32,552 Assemblers.................................................. 40.0 573 10.7 593 2,080 29,795 30,826 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 39.7 484 18.1 376 2,063 25,194 19,573 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 39.8 580 5.9 572 2,067 30,131 29,765 Truck drivers............................................... 40.0 501 8.2 471 2,080 26,037 24,497 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 40.0 618 5.2 572 2,080 32,144 29,765 Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C.... 39.0 593 8.5 568 2,028 30,849 29,557 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 39.9 417 7.8 353 2,049 21,430 18,325 Production helpers.......................................... 39.6 386 18.3 314 2,059 20,047 16,339 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 40.0 433 21.6 350 2,080 22,527 18,200 Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 40.0 590 9.7 544 2,080 30,670 28,309 Hand packers and packagers.................................. 40.0 359 14.1 300 2,080 18,660 15,600 Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 40.0 429 10.3 432 2,080 22,302 22,464 Service occupations................................................. 39.0 470 4.8 391 1,978 23,881 19,864 Protective service occupations................................ 41.1 $798 4.1% $766 2,136 $41,497 $39,853 Food service occupations...................................... 37.4 275 8.3 263 1,872 13,743 12,249 Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 36.5 245 9.7 219 1,732 11,616 11,018 Health service occupations.................................... 38.6 377 4.9 344 2,008 19,602 17,909 Health aides, except nursing................................ 37.7 424 11.8 423 1,959 22,029 22,006 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 38.7 370 5.4 344 2,015 19,249 17,901 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 39.1 396 4.7 363 2,028 20,519 18,857 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 39.6 412 5.0 391 2,051 21,370 20,313 Personal service occupations.................................. 37.0 393 11.5 404 1,680 17,828 17,062 1 Earnings 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, 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. The median designates position--one-half of the workers receive the same as or more, and one-half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. 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. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 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. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and levels(2), all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY, July 1998 All workers (4) All industries Occupational group(3) and level All industries Private industry State and local Full-time workers Part-time workers government Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE All occupations....................................................... $15.73 2.4% $14.44 3.0% $20.19 3.2% $16.85 2.7% $8.74 3.2% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 16.01 2.5 14.70 3.2 20.22 3.2 17.01 2.8 9.04 3.7 White-collar occupations............................................ 17.96 2.9 15.97 3.9 23.40 4.3 19.17 3.0 10.16 4.7 Level 1................................................... 6.95 5.5 6.42 6.3 9.72 10.4 7.51 9.4 6.59 6.6 Level 2................................................... 8.00 3.0 7.61 2.0 9.83 5.6 8.13 3.5 7.64 4.6 Level 3................................................... 9.30 3.6 9.18 3.8 10.28 10.5 9.54 4.5 8.69 4.3 Level 4................................................... 11.79 2.9 11.38 3.1 13.64 3.9 11.95 2.7 10.25 8.3 Level 5................................................... 13.10 3.5 12.87 4.6 13.81 3.2 13.24 3.7 11.49 4.5 Level 6................................................... 14.44 2.7 14.35 3.6 14.66 3.4 14.43 2.8 - - Level 7................................................... 17.99 4.3 17.64 3.5 19.18 13.7 18.08 4.6 16.92 5.6 Level 8................................................... 26.66 4.9 19.09 2.2 35.55 4.5 27.64 5.2 18.10 1.6 Level 9................................................... 23.33 3.4 22.95 3.3 23.91 6.6 23.44 3.4 19.44 3.7 Level 10.................................................. 26.30 5.7 25.26 5.0 - - 26.42 5.6 - - Level 11.................................................. 28.24 2.8 27.66 3.2 29.72 5.5 28.16 2.8 - - Level 12.................................................. 33.79 5.6 34.79 6.8 31.86 8.2 33.79 5.6 - - Level 13.................................................. 46.27 11.0 38.60 3.3 - - 46.27 11.0 - - Level 14.................................................. 55.24 11.4 - - - - 55.24 11.4 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 29.18 25.2 37.84 25.4 - - 31.79 29.7 21.41 39.2 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 18.83 2.9 16.84 4.0 23.51 4.4 19.73 3.1 11.45 6.4 Level 1................................................... 7.44 5.6 6.79 7.1 9.72 10.4 7.65 10.3 - - Level 2................................................... 8.15 3.0 7.74 2.0 9.83 5.6 8.23 3.7 7.93 4.6 Level 3................................................... 9.56 4.2 9.45 4.5 10.28 10.5 9.70 4.8 9.01 5.7 Level 4................................................... 12.46 2.7 12.11 3.1 13.64 3.9 12.52 2.7 11.68 6.8 Level 5................................................... 12.95 3.3 12.69 4.3 13.70 3.5 13.07 3.5 11.71 4.4 Level 6................................................... 14.28 2.8 14.09 3.7 14.66 3.4 14.26 2.9 - - Level 7................................................... 17.94 4.4 17.56 3.5 19.18 13.7 18.02 4.7 16.92 5.6 Level 8................................................... 26.74 5.1 18.78 2.1 35.55 4.5 27.77 5.4 18.10 1.6 Level 9................................................... 23.32 3.4 22.93 3.3 23.91 6.6 23.43 3.4 19.44 3.7 Level 10.................................................. 26.94 5.4 25.49 5.3 - - 27.09 5.3 - - Level 11.................................................. 28.40 2.5 27.80 2.7 29.72 5.5 28.30 2.5 - - Level 12.................................................. 33.79 5.6 34.79 6.8 31.86 8.2 33.79 5.6 - - Level 13.................................................. 46.27 11.0 38.60 3.3 - - 46.27 11.0 - - Level 14.................................................. 55.24 11.4 - - - - 55.24 11.4 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 31.77 30.1 48.08 24.3 - - - - 21.41 39.2 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 23.96 3.0 19.91 4.1 30.16 4.9 24.66 3.2 16.86 5.2 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 26.47 3.1 22.14 4.3 31.66 4.6 27.17 3.3 18.43 5.8 Level 5................................................... 12.22 13.0 11.56 15.9 - - 12.46 14.1 - - Level 6................................................... 14.58 6.0 14.78 7.9 - - 14.66 6.8 - - Level 7................................................... 19.27 4.0 19.59 4.4 - - 19.52 4.5 17.92 4.8 Level 8................................................... 29.59 5.6 18.51 2.1 37.17 3.9 31.31 5.8 18.12 1.7 Level 9................................................... 23.06 4.9 22.32 4.3 23.68 7.9 23.22 5.0 - - Level 10.................................................. 26.56 6.9 24.04 6.1 - - 26.73 6.8 - - Level 11.................................................. 29.47 2.9 28.96 3.1 30.25 5.6 29.30 2.8 - - Level 12.................................................. $34.45 4.9% $32.34 5.1% - - $34.45 4.9% - - Level 13.................................................. 50.76 13.8 - - - - 50.76 13.8 - - Level 14.................................................. 52.16 13.0 - - - - 52.16 13.0 - - Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 27.21 5.8 27.48 6.2 - - 27.21 5.8 - - Level 9................................................... 24.45 3.1 25.32 2.4 - - 24.45 3.1 - - Level 11.................................................. 30.73 4.4 30.73 4.4 - - 30.73 4.4 - - Level 12.................................................. 31.52 1.4 - - - - 31.52 1.4 - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 23.44 4.3 24.14 7.9 - - 23.65 4.0 - - Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 21.16 3.6 20.53 3.7 $22.85 8.4% 21.59 4.1 $19.51 6.0% Level 7................................................... 18.70 3.1 18.80 3.7 - - 18.68 3.6 18.75 3.6 Level 8................................................... 19.20 4.0 18.37 2.2 - - 19.95 6.2 - - Level 9................................................... 21.11 4.3 22.31 5.9 19.77 3.9 21.28 4.6 - - Teachers, college and university.............................. 44.11 13.0 30.45 9.8 49.65 15.4 44.93 13.1 24.37 6.3 Level 11.................................................. 29.71 7.5 - - - - 29.71 7.5 - - Level 13.................................................. 55.44 15.7 - - - - 55.44 15.7 - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 32.53 4.0 17.93 12.0 34.28 4.0 33.69 3.9 11.12 15.5 Level 8................................................... 38.89 2.8 - - 38.89 2.8 38.89 2.8 - - Level 9................................................... 27.52 13.1 - - - - 27.52 13.1 - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 21.63 16.2 - - - - 21.63 16.2 - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - - - - Social, religious, and recreation workers..................... 15.12 12.0 12.75 16.6 19.15 8.6 15.13 12.0 - - Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 19.92 8.0 19.45 8.1 - - 20.12 8.0 - - Technical occupations........................................... 14.53 3.3 14.38 3.5 15.22 9.1 14.76 3.6 12.85 5.2 Level 4................................................... 11.29 2.2 11.29 2.2 - - 11.15 2.2 - - Level 5................................................... 12.75 3.2 12.50 3.3 - - 12.95 3.4 12.05 4.5 Level 6................................................... 13.75 4.7 13.76 6.6 - - 13.58 4.9 - - Level 7................................................... 15.93 4.5 16.07 4.9 - - 15.98 4.8 - - Level 8................................................... 18.11 3.2 18.44 2.8 - - 18.17 3.3 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 27.06 4.8 28.27 5.4 22.94 7.4 27.33 4.7 - - Level 7................................................... 15.93 5.5 15.88 8.2 - - 16.09 5.7 - - Level 8................................................... 21.16 6.3 21.57 8.6 - - 21.26 6.7 - - Level 9................................................... 24.24 3.8 24.04 4.4 - - 24.24 3.8 - - Level 10.................................................. 28.66 8.1 28.66 8.1 - - 28.66 8.1 - - Level 11.................................................. 27.72 4.2 26.87 4.0 - - 27.72 4.2 - - Level 12.................................................. 33.41 8.3 36.09 9.2 - - 33.41 8.3 - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 29.55 6.0 30.27 6.8 26.08 9.6 29.77 6.0 - - Level 7................................................... 17.45 8.1 - - - - 17.45 8.1 - - Level 9................................................... 24.55 5.2 23.99 5.4 - - 24.55 5.2 - - Level 11.................................................. 28.31 4.7 27.38 4.6 - - 28.31 4.7 - - Level 12.................................................. 34.57 8.8 36.39 9.4 - - 34.57 8.8 - - Management related occupations................................ 22.65 7.8 23.91 9.5 20.02 9.1 22.95 7.8 - - Level 7................................................... 15.07 6.0 14.93 10.8 - - 15.25 6.3 - - Level 8................................................... $20.08 10.0% - - - - $20.08 10.0% - - Level 9................................................... 23.68 4.6 $24.17 7.0% - - 23.68 4.6 - - Sales occupations................................................. 11.53 6.8 11.25 6.9 - - 13.73 7.0 $6.96 7.4% Level 1................................................... 5.72 1.4 5.72 1.4 - - - - 5.67 1.2 Level 2................................................... 6.62 2.9 6.62 2.9 - - - - - - Level 3................................................... 8.18 6.1 8.18 6.1 - - 8.03 7.3 8.26 8.3 Level 4................................................... 9.32 3.1 9.32 3.1 - - 9.60 4.4 - - Level 5................................................... 13.93 13.3 13.76 16.2 - - 14.12 13.4 - - Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 11.49 2.7 10.90 2.7 $13.43 5.8% 12.03 3.1 8.53 3.1 Level 1................................................... 7.44 5.6 6.79 7.1 9.72 10.4 7.65 10.3 - - Level 2................................................... 8.15 3.0 7.74 2.0 9.83 5.6 8.23 3.7 7.93 4.6 Level 3................................................... 9.55 4.2 9.44 4.6 10.28 10.5 9.70 4.8 8.90 6.1 Level 4................................................... 12.61 2.9 12.25 3.5 13.64 3.9 12.69 2.9 11.53 8.5 Level 5................................................... 13.20 3.7 13.05 4.9 13.60 3.8 13.25 3.8 - - Level 6................................................... 14.43 3.6 13.73 3.9 15.56 4.6 14.43 3.6 - - Level 7................................................... 19.06 13.5 16.29 7.6 - - 19.06 13.5 - - Blue-collar occupations............................................... 14.54 3.6 14.50 4.0 14.89 5.2 15.11 3.8 8.19 5.2 Level 1................................................... 6.66 2.2 6.68 2.3 - - 6.85 3.1 6.19 2.9 Level 2................................................... 8.88 3.5 8.53 3.0 - - 9.10 3.8 7.46 7.2 Level 3................................................... 15.27 4.0 15.43 4.1 - - 15.41 4.1 11.44 5.5 Level 4................................................... 14.18 6.1 14.18 6.5 14.19 7.0 14.82 5.0 10.27 12.5 Level 5................................................... 14.50 2.6 14.45 3.1 14.65 4.3 14.53 2.6 - - Level 6................................................... 15.48 2.5 15.56 2.8 - - 15.48 2.5 - - Level 7................................................... 19.40 2.5 19.74 2.7 16.64 2.0 19.40 2.5 - - Level 8................................................... 21.45 4.9 21.32 5.4 - - 21.45 4.9 - - Level 9................................................... 25.56 6.1 25.56 6.1 - - 25.56 6.1 - - Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 18.76 2.4 19.17 2.5 15.93 5.8 18.84 2.4 - - Level 4................................................... 14.12 12.0 14.12 12.0 - - 14.12 12.0 - - Level 5................................................... 13.09 3.9 13.04 4.4 - - 13.09 4.0 - - Level 6................................................... 15.74 3.4 15.94 4.1 - - 15.74 3.4 - - Level 7................................................... 19.73 2.8 20.20 3.1 16.64 2.0 19.74 2.8 - - Level 8................................................... 21.50 5.7 - - - - 21.50 5.7 - - Level 9................................................... 25.56 6.1 25.56 6.1 - - 25.56 6.1 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.71 4.6 13.69 4.7 - - 14.10 4.7 6.46 2.7 Level 1................................................... 6.40 3.4 6.40 3.4 - - 6.44 4.3 - - Level 2................................................... 8.45 3.6 8.45 3.6 - - 8.67 3.4 - - Level 4................................................... 16.37 6.1 16.34 6.3 - - 16.37 6.1 - - Level 5................................................... 14.16 4.2 14.16 4.2 - - 14.16 4.2 - - Level 6................................................... 14.84 1.8 14.84 1.8 - - 14.84 1.8 - - Level 7................................................... 16.71 3.4 16.71 3.4 - - 16.71 3.4 - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 13.85 6.7 13.38 8.7 15.20 4.4 14.58 5.7 10.25 10.4 Level 3................................................... 11.42 13.4 11.25 14.6 - - 11.31 13.9 - - Level 4................................................... 12.45 11.7 12.40 12.2 - - 13.57 9.6 10.27 12.5 Level 5................................................... 15.33 2.7 15.63 4.3 14.96 3.7 15.43 2.8 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. $9.87 6.6% $9.66 7.2% $11.75 7.1% $10.46 7.9% $7.18 6.4% Level 1................................................... 6.77 3.0 6.82 3.0 - - 7.05 3.3 6.21 4.2 Level 2................................................... 9.30 6.7 8.69 5.0 - - 9.40 7.4 8.46 10.9 Level 3................................................... 13.83 6.4 14.06 6.9 - - 14.11 6.9 10.95 5.4 Level 4................................................... 11.29 5.8 10.44 5.9 - - 11.29 5.8 - - Service occupations................................................. 10.51 4.4 7.59 3.9 15.46 4.2 12.07 4.5 6.72 5.6 Level 1................................................... 7.03 5.5 6.35 3.9 9.06 10.0 7.48 11.0 6.62 4.1 Level 2................................................... 7.93 5.4 6.87 4.7 11.81 3.8 9.09 5.5 6.43 7.1 Level 3................................................... 8.44 10.1 7.77 11.2 11.59 8.0 9.21 5.6 6.60 27.4 Level 4................................................... 10.53 6.8 9.23 4.6 13.33 5.5 10.73 7.0 9.22 8.3 Level 5................................................... 13.16 5.1 - - 13.21 6.4 13.10 5.2 - - Level 6................................................... 15.23 13.2 - - - - 15.23 13.2 - - Level 7................................................... 20.98 4.6 - - 21.15 4.8 20.98 4.6 - - Protective service occupations.............................. 19.00 3.9 12.25 18.5 19.73 3.5 19.42 3.9 12.67 18.6 Level 7................................................... 21.15 4.8 - - 21.15 4.8 21.15 4.8 - - Food service occupations..................................... 5.99 7.7 5.95 7.7 - - 7.34 7.2 4.83 9.2 Level 1................................................... 5.99 3.0 5.88 2.3 - - 6.05 5.6 5.94 2.9 Level 2................................................... 5.01 16.1 5.01 16.1 - - - - 4.23 15.8 Level 3................................................... 5.28 16.0 5.28 16.0 - - - - 3.89 18.5 Health service occupations.................................. 8.83 3.8 7.71 3.0 13.08 5.4 9.76 4.5 7.43 2.9 Level 2................................................... 8.25 4.8 7.27 3.3 - - 9.48 6.4 7.13 2.1 Level 3................................................... 8.89 7.1 8.18 5.1 - - 8.98 8.0 - - Level 4................................................... 9.82 10.5 - - - - - - - - Cleaning and building service occupations................... 9.84 4.4 9.06 5.2 11.09 6.4 10.12 4.7 7.76 8.6 Level 1................................................... 8.76 7.9 7.32 7.3 10.26 10.3 9.43 9.5 7.49 11.0 Level 2................................................... 8.52 7.4 7.72 5.7 - - 8.57 8.0 - - Level 3................................................... 10.36 7.4 - - - - 10.38 7.7 - - Level 5................................................... 12.25 7.2 - - - - 12.25 7.2 - - Personal service occupations................................ 9.72 10.6 7.92 7.5 11.41 11.9 10.61 10.5 7.13 6.0 Level 1................................................... 6.24 3.6 - - - - - - 6.45 4.7 Level 2................................................... 10.02 15.4 - - - - 10.54 13.8 - - Level 4................................................... 11.27 10.3 9.23 8.9 - - 11.56 10.2 - - 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 Each occupation for which wage 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 ranking within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations and levels(2), all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY, July 1998 All workers(4) All industries Occupation(3) and level All industries Private industry State and local Full-time workers Part-time workers government Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE White-collar occupations: Professional specialty and technical occupations: Professional specialty occupations: Electrical and electronic engineers......................... $25.63 2.4% $25.63 2.4% - - $25.63 2.4% - - Industrial engineers........................................ 22.12 11.4 22.12 11.4 - - 22.12 11.4 - - Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 30.85 8.3 30.85 8.3 - - 30.85 8.3 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 22.89 4.5 - - - - 23.11 4.2 - - Registered nurses........................................... 18.81 1.7 18.86 2.0 $18.67 2.9% 18.97 2.2 $18.41 1.5% Level 7................................................... 18.70 3.1 18.80 3.7 - - 18.68 3.6 18.75 3.6 Level 8................................................... 18.24 2.3 18.41 2.1 - - 18.39 3.8 - - Level 9................................................... 18.92 2.7 18.69 5.1 19.07 3.0 18.82 3.1 - - Pharmacists................................................. 26.54 3.5 27.04 3.1 - - 26.54 3.5 - - Teachers, post secondary N.E.C.............................. 33.49 3.1 - - - - - - - - Elementary school teachers.................................. 33.42 6.7 - - 37.07 4.1 33.42 6.7 - - Level 8................................................... 38.66 2.6 - - 38.66 2.6 38.66 2.6 - - Secondary school teachers................................... 31.55 4.4 - - 32.73 4.2 31.55 4.4 - - Level 8................................................... 37.34 3.9 - - 37.34 3.9 37.34 3.9 - - Librarians.................................................. 21.63 16.2 - - - - 21.63 16.2 - - Social workers.............................................. 14.87 14.0 12.33 18.9 19.30 9.8 14.88 14.0 - - Technical occupations: Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 17.18 4.4 17.55 3.6 - - 18.07 2.7 - - Licensed practical nurses................................... 12.30 3.2 12.13 3.9 - - 12.34 3.5 12.07 4.5 Level 5................................................... 11.99 3.6 11.99 3.6 - - 12.16 3.5 - - Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 12.98 5.9 12.43 5.8 - - 13.19 6.7 - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 15.61 11.7 15.69 12.5 - - 15.69 12.5 - - Drafters.................................................... 17.61 8.0 17.61 8.0 - - 17.61 8.0 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations: Financial managers.......................................... 35.67 16.9 35.67 16.9 - - 35.67 16.9 - - Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations....... 31.26 8.6 31.26 8.6 - - 31.26 8.6 - - Level 9................................................... 27.42 7.7 27.42 7.7 - - 27.42 7.7 - - Administrators, education and related fields................ 26.92 11.3 - - 29.47 10.2 27.42 11.4 - - Managers, service organizations, N.E.C...................... 21.32 7.0 21.32 7.0 - - 21.32 7.0 - - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 31.72 9.3 31.79 9.9 - - 31.72 9.3 - - Level 11.................................................. 25.82 10.1 25.82 10.1 - - 25.82 10.1 - - Level 12.................................................. 35.02 11.2 35.02 11.2 - - 35.02 11.2 - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 20.33 7.2 20.44 7.6 - - 20.33 7.2 - - Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 18.66 9.1 18.96 12.3 - - 19.60 10.6 - - Sales occupations: Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. 13.48 14.5 13.48 14.5 - - 13.48 14.5 - - Level 4................................................... 9.43 4.9 9.43 4.9 - - 9.43 4.9 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 7.84 3.9 7.84 3.9 - - 8.57 3.9 6.91 4.5 Level 4................................................... 8.26 6.9 8.26 6.9 - - - - - - Cashiers.................................................... 7.10 8.8 6.50 4.8 - - 8.97 12.6 5.84 2.5 Level 1................................................... 5.68 1.2 5.68 1.2 - - - - 5.62 1.1 Level 3................................................... 7.44 7.7 7.44 7.7 - - - - - - Administrative support occupations, including clerical: Supervisors, financial records processing................... $15.17 7.5% $15.17 7.5% - - $15.17 7.5% - - Computer operators.......................................... 15.75 6.9 - - - - 15.75 6.9 - - Secretaries................................................. 12.64 4.9 11.71 5.6 $14.85 4.6% 12.69 5.0 $10.65 8.2% Level 4................................................... 13.08 5.5 11.29 3.5 - - 13.16 5.5 - - Level 5................................................... 12.37 5.5 - - - - 12.41 5.9 - - Typists..................................................... 12.20 4.5 - - 12.78 5.2 12.11 4.7 - - Receptionists............................................... 8.65 5.5 8.65 5.5 - - 9.03 6.3 - - Information clerks, N.E.C................................... 10.69 7.5 10.25 6.8 - - 10.83 7.7 - - Order clerks................................................ 10.63 7.8 10.63 7.8 - - 10.63 7.8 - - Library clerks.............................................. 11.75 9.5 - - - - 12.06 9.1 - - Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 10.44 6.1 10.15 6.2 - - 10.79 5.9 - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 13.98 6.9 14.61 9.5 12.73 2.5 14.12 7.1 - - Level 4................................................... 13.51 8.7 13.94 12.0 - - 13.51 8.7 - - Level 5................................................... 16.46 12.2 - - - - 16.46 12.2 - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 11.43 5.5 11.43 5.5 - - 11.50 6.1 - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. - - - - - - 11.50 15.9 - - General office clerks....................................... 11.12 5.0 10.63 9.7 11.49 4.6 11.92 4.7 7.77 8.4 Level 2................................................... 8.98 8.6 - - - - - - 8.01 3.6 Level 4................................................... 12.47 6.4 - - - - 12.47 6.4 - - Data entry keyers........................................... 9.32 6.9 8.42 8.2 - - 9.62 7.6 - - Level 2................................................... 7.41 2.1 7.41 2.1 - - - - - - Teachers' aides............................................. 8.67 5.2 - - 8.97 5.7 - - - - Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 9.19 4.9 9.12 5.1 - - 10.12 5.4 7.65 7.4 Level 3................................................... 8.63 5.3 - - - - - - - - Level 4................................................... 11.45 9.2 11.45 9.2 - - - - - - Blue-collar occupations: Precision production, craft, and repair occupations: Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 24.60 6.4 - - - - 24.60 6.4 - - Automobile mechanics........................................ 16.84 9.6 - - - - 16.84 9.6 - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 19.38 6.4 19.38 6.4 - - 19.38 6.4 - - Level 7................................................... 21.30 6.3 21.30 6.3 - - 21.30 6.3 - - Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 17.55 8.1 20.15 6.9 - - 17.55 8.1 - - Level 7................................................... 18.63 8.3 - - - - 18.63 8.3 - - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 21.44 5.9 21.44 5.9 - - 21.44 5.9 - - Level 7................................................... 18.63 2.2 18.63 2.2 - - 18.63 2.2 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors: Molding and casting machine operators....................... 10.52 17.4 10.52 17.4 - - - - - - Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators............... 6.92 3.4 6.92 3.4 - - - - - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 10.81 5.1 10.81 5.1 - - 10.81 5.1 - - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 12.16 7.6 11.93 7.8 - - 12.22 7.6 - - Level 5................................................... 14.38 5.9 14.38 5.9 - - 14.38 5.9 - - Welders and cutters......................................... 16.31 8.2 16.31 8.2 - - 16.31 8.2 - - Assemblers.................................................. 13.58 10.6 13.58 10.6 - - 14.32 10.7 - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... $12.21 18.2% $12.21 18.2% - - $12.21 18.2% - - Transportation and material moving occupations: Truck drivers............................................... 12.61 7.7 12.45 9.1 - - 12.52 8.2 - - Level 3................................................... 9.35 6.4 - - - - 9.35 6.4 - - Level 4................................................... 12.30 10.2 12.30 10.2 - - - - - - Level 5................................................... 15.19 6.7 - - - - 15.26 7.6 - - Bus drivers................................................. 11.87 14.5 - - $14.48 2.3% - - $9.52 7.9% Level 4................................................... - - - - - - - - 9.32 9.3 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 15.40 5.2 15.40 5.2 - - 15.45 5.2 - - Level 5................................................... 14.57 2.4 14.57 2.4 - - 14.57 2.4 - - Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C.... 15.16 6.7 15.16 7.6 - - 15.21 7.4 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers: Production helpers.......................................... 9.74 18.4 9.74 18.4 - - 9.74 18.4 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.53 15.1 8.53 15.1 - - 10.83 21.6 - - Level 3................................................... 14.65 21.2 14.65 21.2 - - - - - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 13.55 8.5 13.55 8.5 - - 14.75 9.7 10.19 6.5 Level 3................................................... 14.49 8.0 14.49 8.0 - - 15.16 9.7 - - Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 6.94 12.1 6.94 12.1 - - - - - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.97 14.1 8.97 14.1 - - 8.97 14.1 - - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 10.45 9.3 9.58 12.0 12.17 9.5 10.72 10.3 - - Service occupations: Protective service occupations: Guards and police except public service..................... 12.82 16.6 11.19 19.4 - - - - - - Food service occupations: Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.89 19.6 3.89 19.6 - - - - 3.46 11.7 Level 3................................................... 4.35 29.9 4.35 29.9 - - - - - - Cooks....................................................... 8.86 6.6 8.86 6.6 - - - - - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 6.08 2.9 6.08 2.9 - - - - - - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 6.48 6.9 6.36 6.9 - - 6.71 8.2 5.82 6.9 Level 1................................................... 5.98 5.6 5.74 3.3 - - - - - - Health service occupations: Health aides, except nursing................................ 10.16 13.8 9.45 15.1 - - 11.25 9.7 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 8.66 3.9 7.49 2.9 13.11 6.1 9.55 5.0 7.37 2.7 Level 2................................................... 8.29 4.9 7.28 3.4 - - 9.48 6.4 7.14 2.2 Level 3................................................... 8.10 6.0 8.10 6.0 - - - - - - Cleaning and building service occupations: Maids and housemen.......................................... 7.63 9.6 7.41 10.3 - - - - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 10.06 4.7 9.17 5.5 11.13 6.6 10.42 5.0 7.39 10.6 Level 1................................................... 9.15 8.3 7.41 6.4 10.26 10.3 10.29 8.1 - - Level 2................................................... 8.82 8.5 - - - - 8.92 9.5 - - Level 3................................................... 10.56 8.2 - - - - 10.56 8.2 - - Level 5................................................... 11.90 8.8 - - - - 11.90 8.8 - - Personal service occupations: Welfare service aides....................................... 7.73 3.4 7.73 3.4 - - - - 7.44 6.9 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 Each occupation for which wage 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 ranking within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-1. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries, Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY, July 1998 Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) Occupational group(2) 3) 3) 3) 3) Mean RSE All occupations....................................................... $16.85 $8.74 $17.63 $14.13 $15.77 $14.61 2.7% 3.2% 2.4% 4.2% 2.4% 11.3% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 17.01 9.04 17.90 14.33 16.02 15.26 2.8 3.7 2.4 4.4 2.5 15.9 White-collar occupations............................................ 19.17 10.16 20.65 16.41 18.03 15.86 3.0 4.7 3.7 4.3 3.0 14.1 White-collar excluding sales...................................... 19.73 11.45 21.67 17.11 18.80 22.23 3.1 6.4 3.8 4.4 2.9 23.0 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 24.66 16.86 27.79 20.42 23.96 - 3.2 5.2 4.4 4.6 3.0 - Professional specialty occupations.............................. 27.17 18.43 30.40 22.42 26.47 - 3.3 5.8 4.3 4.7 3.1 - Technical occupations........................................... 14.76 12.85 14.65 14.45 14.53 - 3.6 5.2 4.9 4.5 3.3 - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 27.33 - 21.72 28.18 26.90 - 4.7 - 6.4 5.1 4.7 - Sales occupations................................................. 13.73 6.96 10.62 11.89 10.93 13.77 7.0 7.4 11.3 8.4 7.3 15.9 Administrative support including clerical occupations............. 12.03 8.53 13.99 10.15 11.49 - 3.1 3.1 4.1 2.4 2.7 - Blue-collar occupations............................................. 15.11 8.19 16.29 12.20 14.57 13.48 3.8 5.2 3.0 6.4 3.7 13.3 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 18.84 - 18.96 18.41 18.78 - 2.4 - 2.9 4.2 2.4 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.10 6.46 16.65 10.01 13.72 - 4.7 2.7 4.1 6.5 4.8 - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 14.58 10.25 14.15 13.38 13.66 - 5.7 10.4 8.1 7.3 7.2 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 10.46 7.18 12.27 7.91 9.94 - 7.9 6.4 6.0 5.1 7.0 - Service occupations................................................. 12.07 6.72 13.44 7.36 10.53 - 4.5 5.6 4.8 5.0 4.4 - 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. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-2. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and industry division, private industry, all workers(2), Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY, July 1998 All All private Goods-producing indust- pri- Goods-producing indust- industries ries(4) Service-producing industries(5) vate ries(4) Service-producing industries(5) indus- tries Trans- Fin- Trans- Fin- Occupational group(3) port- Whole- ance, port- Whole- ance, Con- Manu- ation sale in- Con- Manu- ation sale in- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and and sur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and and sur- Serv- tion turing public retail ance, ices tion turing public retail ance, ices Mean util- trade and RSE util- trade and ities real ities real estate estate Mean RSE All occupations....................................................... $14.44 $17.51 - - $17.80 - - - - - 3.0% 4.4% - - 4.6% - - - - - All occupations excluding sales..................................... 14.70 17.45 - - 17.70 - - - - - 3.2 4.5 - - 4.7 - - - - - White-collar occupations............................................ 15.97 22.12 - - 22.40 - - - - - 3.9 7.2 - - 7.2 - - - - - White-collar excluding sales...................................... 16.84 22.11 - - 22.24 - - - - - 4.0 7.5 - - 7.6 - - - - - Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 19.91 23.64 - - 23.64 - - - - - 4.1 7.2 - - 7.2 - - - - - Professional specialty occupations.............................. 22.14 26.55 - - 26.55 - - - - - 4.3 6.3 - - 6.3 - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 14.38 16.14 - - 16.14 - - - - - 3.5 6.6 - - 6.6 - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 28.27 29.95 - - 30.30 - - - - - 5.4 8.3 - - 8.4 - - - - - Sales occupations................................................. 11.25 22.23 - - 26.91 - - - - - 6.9 14.5 - - 10.3 - - - - - Administrative support, including clerical occupations............ 10.90 13.07 - - 13.04 - - - - - 2.7 4.8 - - 5.0 - - - - - Blue-collar occupations............................................. 14.50 15.62 - - 15.83 - - - - - 4.0 2.7 - - 2.8 - - - - - Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 19.17 19.08 - - 19.85 - - - - - 2.5 3.4 - - 3.5 - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.69 14.91 - - 14.91 - - - - - 4.7 4.0 - - 4.0 - - - - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 13.38 13.60 - - 14.18 - - - - - 8.7 6.2 - - 6.3 - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 9.66 11.93 - - 12.38 - - - - - 7.2 7.7 - - 8.4 - - - - - Service occupations................................................. 7.59 11.16 - - 11.16 - - - - - 3.9 13.3 - - 13.3 - - - - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 5 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-3. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and establishment employment size, private industry, all workers(2), Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY, July 1998 All All private Mean private RSE industry industry workers workers Occupational group(3) 100 workers or more 100 workers or more Mean 50 - 99 RSE 50 - 99 workers 100 - 499 500 workers 100 - 499 500 Total workers workers Total workers workers or more or more All occupations....................................................... $14.44 $13.19 $14.75 $12.82 $18.08 3.0% 6.8% 3.6% 5.5% 3.4% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 14.70 13.20 15.05 13.14 18.09 3.2 7.2 3.8 5.9 3.4 White-collar occupations............................................ 15.97 13.90 16.39 14.85 18.92 3.9 7.5 4.6 6.7 5.2 White-collar excluding sales...................................... 16.84 14.19 17.30 16.08 18.97 4.0 8.6 4.5 7.0 5.4 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 19.91 14.90 20.46 21.12 19.91 4.1 11.4 4.2 7.3 4.3 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 22.14 18.59 22.39 22.51 22.27 4.3 14.8 4.4 7.6 4.2 Technical occupations........................................... 14.38 11.54 15.01 14.71 15.14 3.5 4.7 3.4 5.6 4.2 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 28.27 25.01 28.91 27.24 30.83 5.4 8.4 6.0 5.6 10.6 Sales occupations................................................. 11.25 13.05 10.56 9.79 17.55 6.9 14.2 7.3 6.7 14.8 Administrative support, including clerical occupations............ 10.90 10.60 10.96 10.57 11.84 2.7 8.4 3.2 4.1 3.9 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 14.50 14.42 14.52 12.01 18.24 4.0 7.7 4.8 6.9 3.5 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 19.17 17.56 20.00 18.98 21.14 2.5 5.3 3.4 6.2 2.9 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.69 11.27 13.96 10.44 17.85 4.7 9.3 5.3 6.7 5.4 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 13.38 15.19 12.60 11.31 15.16 8.7 10.8 8.2 11.3 7.0 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 9.66 10.16 9.45 8.46 14.15 7.2 12.0 8.7 7.4 17.1 Service occupations................................................. 7.59 5.99 8.03 7.72 9.34 3.9 8.6 4.0 4.7 6.9 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. 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. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-4. Number of workers(1) represented by occupational group, Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY, July 1998 All workers All indus- Private State and All indus- Private State and Occupational group(2) tries industry local tries industry local government government Workers RSE All occupations....................................................... 303,797 231,209 72,588 3.5% 4.0% 6.9% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 283,779 211,859 71,920 3.6 4.1 7.0 White-collar occupations............................................ 159,664 113,255 46,410 4.8 5.8 8.3 White-collar excluding sales...................................... 139,647 93,904 45,742 4.8 5.8 8.4 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 61,890 34,542 27,348 6.2 7.8 10.1 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 50,159 24,837 25,322 7.2 10.1 10.2 Technical occupations........................................... 11,732 9,705 2,026 13.0 13.6 37.3 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 17,077 12,938 4,138 11.3 12.8 24.1 Sales occupations................................................. 20,018 19,350 - 17.8 18.3 - Administrative support including clerical occupations............. 60,680 46,424 14,256 7.7 9.1 13.9 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 96,591 85,886 10,705 7.5 7.6 28.9 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 27,093 23,659 3,435 14.5 16.1 27.2 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 31,022 30,839 - 10.2 10.2 - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 18,781 13,754 - 17.2 14.6 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 19,695 17,634 2,061 16.1 17.6 30.6 Service occupations................................................. 47,541 32,069 15,472 9.4 12.3 13.8 1 Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the survey. 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 establishment, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied by industry division and establishment employment size, and number of establishments represented, Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY, July 1998 Number of establishments studied Number of Industry establish- 100 workers or more ments rep- Total 50 - 99 resented studied workers Total 100 - 499 500 workers workers or more All industries........................................................ 1,634 177 40 137 84 53 Private industry.................................................... 1,532 150 39 111 79 32 Goods-producing industries........................................ 338 53 10 43 30 13 Mining.......................................................... 1 1 1 - - - Construction.................................................... 43 2 1 1 1 - Manufacturing................................................... 293 50 8 42 29 13 Service-producing industries...................................... 1,194 97 29 68 49 19 Tranportation and public utilities.............................. 146 8 4 4 3 1 Wholesale and retail trade...................................... 400 29 12 17 14 3 Finance, insurance and real estate.............................. 55 8 2 6 2 4 Services........................................................ 592 52 11 41 30 11 State and local government.......................................... 103 27 1 26 5 21 NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported. Overall industry and industry groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers(2), Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY, July 1998 All State and Occupation(3) indus- Private local tries industry govern- ment All occupations....................................................... 2.4 3.0 3.2 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 2.5 3.2 3.2 White-collar occupations............................................ 2.9 3.9 4.3 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 2.9 4.0 4.4 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 3.0 4.1 4.9 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 3.1 4.3 4.6 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 5.8 6.2 - Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 2.4 2.4 - Industrial engineers........................................ 11.4 11.4 - Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 8.3 8.3 - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 4.3 7.9 - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 4.5 - - Natural scientists............................................ - - - Health related occupations.................................... 3.6 3.7 8.4 Registered nurses........................................... 1.7 2.0 2.9 Pharmacists................................................. 3.5 3.1 - Teachers, college and university.............................. 13.0 9.8 15.4 Teachers, post secondary N.E.C.............................. 3.1 - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 4.0 12.0 4.0 Elementary school teachers.................................. 6.7 - 4.1 Secondary school teachers................................... 4.4 - 4.2 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 16.2 - - Librarians.................................................. 16.2 - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 12.0 16.6 8.6 Social workers.............................................. 14.0 18.9 9.8 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 8.0 8.1 - Technical occupations........................................... 3.3 3.5 9.1 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 4.4 3.6 - Licensed practical nurses................................... 3.2 3.9 - Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 5.9 5.8 - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 11.7 12.5 - Drafters.................................................... 8.0 8.0 - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 4.8 5.4 7.4 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 6.0 6.8 9.6 Financial managers.......................................... 16.9 16.9 - Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations....... 8.6 8.6 - Administrators, education and related fields................ 11.3 - 10.2 Managers, service organizations, N.E.C...................... 7.0 7.0 - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 9.3 9.9 - Management related occupations................................ 7.8 9.5 9.1 Accountants and auditors.................................... 7.2 7.6 - Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 9.1 12.3 - Sales occupations................................................. 6.8 6.9 - Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. 14.5 14.5 - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 3.9 3.9 - Cashiers.................................................... 8.8 4.8 - Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 2.7 2.7 5.8 Supervisors, financial records processing................... 7.5 7.5 - Computer operators.......................................... 6.9 - - Secretaries................................................. 4.9 5.6 4.6 Typists..................................................... 4.5 - 5.2 Receptionists............................................... 5.5 5.5 - Information clerks, N.E.C................................... 7.5 6.8 - Order clerks................................................ 7.8 7.8 - Library clerks.............................................. 9.5 - - Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 6.1 6.2 - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 6.9 9.5 2.5 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 5.5 5.5 - General office clerks....................................... 5.0 9.7 4.6 Data entry keyers........................................... 6.9 8.2 - Teachers' aides............................................. 5.2 - 5.7 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 4.9 5.1 - Blue-collar occupations............................................. 3.6 4.0 5.2 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 2.4 2.5 5.8 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 6.4 - - Automobile mechanics........................................ 9.6 - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 6.4 6.4 - Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 8.1 6.9 - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 5.9 5.9 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 4.6 4.7 - Molding and casting machine operators....................... 17.4 17.4 - Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators............... 3.4 3.4 - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 5.1 5.1 - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 7.6 7.8 - Welders and cutters......................................... 8.2 8.2 - Assemblers.................................................. 10.6 10.6 - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 18.2 18.2 - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 6.7 8.7 4.4 Truck drivers............................................... 7.7 9.1 - Bus drivers................................................. 14.5 - 2.3 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 5.2 5.2 - Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C.... 6.7 7.6 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.6 7.2 7.1 Production helpers.......................................... 18.4 18.4 - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 15.1 15.1 - Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 8.5 8.5 - Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 12.1 12.1 - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 14.1 14.1 - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 9.3 12.0 9.5 Service occupations................................................. 4.4 3.9 4.2 Protective service occupations................................ 3.9 18.5 3.5 Guards and police except public service..................... 16.6 19.4 - Food service occupations...................................... 7.7 7.7 - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 19.6 19.6 - Cooks....................................................... 6.6 6.6 - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 2.9 2.9 - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 6.9 6.9 - Health service occupations.................................... 3.8 3.0 5.4 Health aides, except nursing................................ 13.8 15.1 - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 3.9 2.9 6.1 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 4.4 5.2 6.4 Maids and housemen.......................................... 9.6 10.3 - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 4.7 5.5 6.6 Personal service occupations.................................. 10.6 7.5 11.9 Welfare service aides....................................... 3.4 3.4 - 1 The relative standard error is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. Hourly earnings for these occupations are presented in Tables A-1 and A-2. Reliable relative standard errors could not be determined for all occupations. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY, July 1998 All Full-t- Part-ti- Occupation(1) workers ime me workers workers All occupations....................................................... 5 6 3 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 5 6 3 White-collar occupations............................................ 6 7 4 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 6 7 5 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 8 9 7 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 9 9 7 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 10 10 - Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 10 10 - Industrial engineers........................................ 8 8 - Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 11 11 - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 10 10 - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 10 10 - Natural scientists............................................ - - - Health related occupations.................................... 8 9 8 Registered nurses........................................... 8 8 8 Pharmacists................................................. 9 9 - Teachers, college and university.............................. 11 12 7 Teachers, post secondary N.E.C.............................. 10 - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 8 8 6 Elementary school teachers.................................. 8 8 - Secondary school teachers................................... 9 9 - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 9 9 - Librarians.................................................. 9 9 - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 7 7 - Social workers.............................................. 7 7 - Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 8 8 - Technical occupations........................................... 6 6 5 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 7 8 - Licensed practical nurses................................... 5 6 5 Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 5 5 - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 6 6 - Drafters.................................................... 7 7 - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 10 10 - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 10 10 - Financial managers.......................................... 11 11 - Managers, marketing, advertising and public relations....... 10 10 - Administrators, education and related fields................ 11 11 - Managers, service organizations, N.E.C...................... 9 9 - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 11 11 - Management related occupations................................ 9 9 - Accountants and auditors.................................... 9 9 - Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 8 8 - Sales occupations................................................. 4 5 2 Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. 6 6 - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 3 4 3 Cashiers.................................................... 2 3 2 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 4 4 2 Supervisors, financial records processing................... 7 7 - Computer operators.......................................... 6 6 - Secretaries................................................. 5 5 4 Typists..................................................... 4 4 - Receptionists............................................... 2 3 - Information clerks, N.E.C................................... 4 4 - Order clerks................................................ 4 4 - Library clerks.............................................. 4 4 - Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 4 4 - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 4 4 - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 4 4 - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. - 3 - General office clerks....................................... 3 4 2 Data entry keyers........................................... 2 2 - Teachers' aides............................................. 2 - - Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 3 4 2 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 4 5 2 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 7 7 - Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 8 8 - Automobile mechanics........................................ 6 6 - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 7 7 - Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 6 6 - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 8 8 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 4 4 2 Molding and casting machine operators....................... 3 - - Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators............... 2 - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 4 4 - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 4 4 - Welders and cutters......................................... 4 4 - Assemblers.................................................. 3 3 - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 4 4 - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 4 4 4 Truck drivers............................................... 4 4 - Bus drivers................................................. 4 - 4 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 5 5 - Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, N.E.C.... 4 4 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 2 2 2 Production helpers.......................................... 2 2 - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 2 2 - Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 3 3 2 Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 2 - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 2 2 - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 2 3 - Service occupations................................................. 3 4 2 Protective service occupations................................ 6 7 3 Guards and police except public service..................... 4 - - Food service occupations...................................... 2 3 2 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3 - 3 Cooks....................................................... 4 - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 2 - - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 2 2 2 Health service occupations.................................... 3 3 2 Health aides, except nursing................................ 3 4 - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 3 3 2 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 3 3 2 Maids and housemen.......................................... 2 - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 3 3 1 Personal service occupations.................................. 3 3 2 Welfare service aides....................................... 2 - 2 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. The occupations titled authors, musicians, actors, painters, photographers, dancers, artists, athletes, and legislators cannot be assigned a work level. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Supplemental Table 2. Hourly earnings(1) for construction trades occupations in non-construction industries(2), Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY, July 1998 All workers(4) Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupational group(3) and level Middle Range Middle Range Middle Range Mean RSE Median Mean RSE Median Mean RSE Median 25 75 25 75 25 75 Construction trades occupations....................................... $21.13 7.4% $24.11 $15.71 $26.31 $21.13 7.4% $24.11 $15.71 $26.31 - - - - - Craft workers and helpers............................................. 17.17 8.1 16.36 13.55 21.01 17.17 8.1 16.36 13.55 21.01 - - - - - Welders and cutters............................................. 16.31 8.2 15.65 13.47 21.01 16.31 8.2 15.65 13.47 21.01 - - - - - 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. At the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. The middle range is defined by two rates of pay; at the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown; at the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. 2 The Standard Industrial Classification Manual was used in classifying establishments by industry. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Supplemental Table 3. Number of workers in construction trades occupations, Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY, July 1998 Workers RSE Construction industries(2) Non-construction Construction industries(2) Non-construction Occupational group(1) and level industries(2) industries(2) All Full-time Part-time All Full-time Part-time All Full-time Part-time All Full-time Part-time workers(- workers workers workers(- workers workers workers(- workers workers workers(- workers workers 3) 3) 3) 3) Construction trades occupations....................................... - - - 2,893 2,893 - - - - 27.6% 27.6% - Craft workers and helpers............................................. - - - 2,709 2,709 - - - - 29.0 29.0 - Welders and cutters............................................. - - - 2,414 2,414 - - - - 30.4 30.4 - 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 2 The Standard Industrial Classification Manual was used in classifying establishments by industry. 3 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation.