NC BL 06/00/2002 Table: Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, Bulletin 3110-76, February 2002 Table 1-1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours by selected characteristics, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2002 Total Private industry State and local government Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Worker and establishment characteristics Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) Total................................................................. $16.10 4.1 37.2 $15.80 4.6 36.8 $16.93 8.8 38.5 Worker characteristics:(4) White-collar occupations(5)......................................... 19.53 5.9 37.5 19.10 7.3 37.2 20.47 10.0 38.3 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.42 6.4 37.2 24.74 7.9 36.3 24.01 10.5 38.3 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.02 7.6 41.2 28.81 7.3 41.4 23.12 28.6 40.0 Sales............................................................. 10.52 8.4 32.9 10.52 8.4 32.9 € € € Administrative support............................................ 12.08 4.7 39.2 12.36 6.4 39.7 11.41 5.9 38.1 Blue-collar occupations(5).......................................... 14.55 5.4 38.6 14.76 5.6 38.5 12.15 10.2 38.8 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.83 6.7 40.0 20.10 6.8 40.0 - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors....................................................... 13.84 6.5 39.6 13.84 6.5 39.6 € € € Transportation and material moving................................ 11.61 5.5 35.9 11.90 7.2 35.5 - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers..................................................... 9.68 4.4 36.3 9.37 3.6 35.8 - - - Service occupations(5).............................................. 8.96 7.1 34.4 7.23 2.5 31.6 11.18 9.6 38.8 Full time........................................................... 16.83 4.2 40.2 16.69 4.7 39.9 17.21 9.1 41.0 Part time........................................................... 8.91 8.3 21.4 7.99 8.7 21.6 12.87 11.8 20.6 Union............................................................... 15.52 4.2 38.5 15.52 4.2 38.5 € € € Nonunion............................................................ 16.14 4.3 37.1 15.82 4.9 36.6 16.93 8.8 38.5 Time................................................................ 16.13 4.1 37.2 15.83 4.6 36.7 16.93 8.8 38.5 Incentive........................................................... 13.91 14.0 41.8 13.91 14.0 41.8 - - - Establishment characteristics: Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 19.89 5.4 39.9 (6) (6) (6) Service producing................................................... (6) (6) (6) - - - (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers(7).................................................... 9.95 5.7 33.2 9.92 5.8 33.2 - - - 100-499 workers..................................................... 12.73 3.8 36.6 12.67 4.0 36.5 - - - 500 workers or more................................................. 18.99 5.2 38.4 20.34 5.7 38.4 17.15 9.2 38.6 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 5 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-producing industries applies to private industry only. 7 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2002 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $16.10 4.1 $15.80 4.6 $16.93 8.8 All excluding sales............................................... 16.47 4.2 16.29 4.8 16.93 8.8 White collar........................................................ 19.53 5.9 19.10 7.3 20.47 10.0 White collar excluding sales.................................... 20.77 6.1 20.93 7.8 20.47 10.0 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.42 6.4 24.74 7.9 24.01 10.5 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.68 6.8 29.36 8.5 26.20 10.2 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... - - - - € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - - € € Natural scientists............................................ - - - - € € Health related................................................ 21.57 11.0 - - 19.91 27.2 Registered nurses........................................... 21.52 1.9 21.87 1.4 € € Teachers, college and university.............................. 35.15 8.6 - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 24.25 3.9 - - 24.80 3.6 Elementary school teachers.................................. 24.84 4.1 € € 25.64 3.4 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - € € - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 16.27 18.2 - - - - Technical....................................................... 16.96 8.2 18.22 8.7 12.91 4.4 Licensed practical nurses................................... 13.10 3.1 13.91 2.2 € € Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 13.82 13.9 € € € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.02 7.6 28.81 7.3 23.12 28.6 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 30.20 12.9 28.98 14.8 - - Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 28.36 17.3 28.36 17.3 € € Management related............................................ 26.47 10.4 28.69 6.6 - - Sales............................................................. 10.52 8.4 10.52 8.4 € € Supervisors, sales.......................................... 12.93 10.3 12.93 10.3 € € Sales workers, other commodities............................ 7.45 20.3 7.45 20.3 € € Cashiers.................................................... 7.00 5.0 7.00 5.0 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.08 4.7 12.36 6.4 11.41 5.9 Secretaries................................................. 11.88 6.6 11.66 9.2 12.46 5.4 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.64 4.3 10.80 4.7 € € General office clerks....................................... 14.01 9.4 14.64 9.2 10.90 7.2 Teachers' aides............................................. 9.41 1.3 € € 9.44 1.3 Blue collar......................................................... 14.55 5.4 14.76 5.6 12.15 10.2 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.83 6.7 20.10 6.8 - - Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 22.63 10.6 € € € € Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 18.43 6.5 18.43 6.5 € € Machinery maintenance....................................... 13.76 7.8 € € € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. $17.31 11.3 $17.35 11.9 € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.84 6.5 13.84 6.5 € € Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 11.40 6.6 11.40 6.6 € € Textile sewing machine operators............................ 7.93 5.9 7.93 5.9 € € Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 12.91 2.5 12.91 2.5 € € Separating, filtering, and clarifying machine operators..... 12.84 30.0 12.84 30.0 € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 17.29 8.3 17.29 8.3 € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 11.55 7.7 11.55 7.7 € € Transportation and material moving................................ 11.61 5.5 11.90 7.2 - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 12.58 7.9 12.58 7.9 € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.68 4.4 9.37 3.6 - - Production helpers.......................................... 11.56 9.5 11.56 9.5 € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.51 8.5 8.51 8.5 € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 10.23 6.2 10.23 6.2 € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.51 3.9 9.51 3.9 € € Service............................................................. 8.96 7.1 7.23 2.5 $11.18 9.6 Protective service............................................ 10.70 10.4 7.39 5.4 14.19 5.4 Guards and police, except public service.................... 6.98 2.6 6.98 2.6 € € Food service.................................................. 7.29 3.7 6.95 3.6 - - Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... - - - - € € Other food service........................................... 7.34 3.9 7.00 3.9 - - Cooks....................................................... 7.98 4.6 € € € € Food counter, fountain, and related......................... 6.47 4.1 6.47 4.1 € € Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 8.63 5.7 € € € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 6.79 6.9 6.35 4.9 € € Health service................................................ 7.89 2.7 7.66 3.9 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 7.85 2.8 7.64 4.1 € € Cleaning and building service................................. 7.62 2.9 7.12 4.3 7.97 3.5 Maids and housemen.......................................... 7.31 5.0 6.58 9.9 € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.53 3.8 6.90 5.5 7.94 4.4 Personal service.............................................. 13.51 21.8 - - - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2002 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $16.83 4.2 $16.69 4.7 $17.21 9.1 All excluding sales............................................... 17.09 4.4 17.03 4.9 17.21 9.1 White collar........................................................ 20.21 6.1 19.82 7.4 21.06 10.3 White collar excluding sales.................................... 21.07 6.3 21.07 8.0 21.06 10.3 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 25.28 6.3 25.21 8.0 25.38 10.3 Professional specialty.......................................... 28.07 6.9 29.82 8.8 26.54 10.4 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... - - - - € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - - € € Natural scientists............................................ - - - - € € Health related................................................ 21.69 13.1 - - - - Registered nurses........................................... 21.78 1.4 21.74 1.4 € € Teachers, college and university.............................. 35.15 8.6 - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 24.30 3.9 - - 24.86 3.5 Elementary school teachers.................................. 24.84 4.1 € € 25.64 3.4 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - € € - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - - - Technical....................................................... 17.99 7.8 18.70 8.1 13.54 7.0 Licensed practical nurses................................... 13.52 3.2 14.21 2.1 € € Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 14.66 16.3 14.99 17.3 € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.06 7.6 28.86 7.3 23.12 28.6 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 30.20 12.9 28.98 14.8 - - Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 28.36 17.3 28.36 17.3 € € Management related............................................ 26.53 10.3 28.77 6.5 - - Sales............................................................. 11.88 9.7 11.88 9.7 € € Supervisors, sales.......................................... 12.93 10.3 12.93 10.3 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.10 4.8 12.39 6.4 11.45 5.9 Secretaries................................................. 11.88 6.6 11.66 9.2 12.46 5.4 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.79 4.3 11.00 4.7 € € General office clerks....................................... 14.01 9.4 14.64 9.2 10.90 7.2 Teachers' aides............................................. 9.44 1.3 € € 9.44 1.3 Blue collar......................................................... 14.85 5.3 15.09 5.5 12.12 10.2 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.85 6.7 20.12 6.8 - - Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 22.63 10.6 € € € € Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 18.43 6.5 18.43 6.5 € € Machinery maintenance....................................... 13.76 7.8 € € € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 17.31 11.3 17.35 11.9 € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... $13.89 6.5 $13.89 6.5 € € Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 11.40 6.6 11.40 6.6 € € Textile sewing machine operators............................ 7.93 5.9 7.93 5.9 € € Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 12.91 2.5 12.91 2.5 € € Separating, filtering, and clarifying machine operators..... 12.84 30.0 12.84 30.0 € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 17.41 8.1 17.41 8.1 € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 11.55 7.7 11.55 7.7 € € Transportation and material moving................................ 11.78 5.5 12.23 7.0 - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 12.58 7.9 12.58 7.9 € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.12 4.5 9.85 3.6 - - Production helpers.......................................... 11.56 9.5 11.56 9.5 € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 11.51 4.5 11.51 4.5 € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 10.23 6.2 10.23 6.2 € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.51 3.9 9.51 3.9 € € Service............................................................. 9.64 7.6 7.69 3.2 $11.33 9.8 Protective service............................................ 11.19 10.1 - - 14.39 5.6 Food service.................................................. 8.29 2.4 7.99 2.7 - - Other food service........................................... 8.41 2.7 8.15 3.3 € € Health service................................................ 7.92 2.9 7.69 4.4 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 7.88 2.9 7.66 4.5 € € Cleaning and building service................................. 7.97 3.2 7.86 6.2 8.01 3.7 Maids and housemen.......................................... 7.31 5.0 6.58 9.9 € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.02 4.0 € € 7.98 4.8 Personal service.............................................. - - - - - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 2-3. Mean hourly earnings,(1) part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2002 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $8.91 8.3 $7.99 8.7 $12.87 11.8 All excluding sales............................................... 9.34 9.6 8.25 10.8 12.87 11.8 White collar........................................................ 11.75 10.3 10.57 14.4 14.09 11.9 White collar excluding sales.................................... 15.28 9.8 16.99 12.6 14.09 11.9 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 15.61 10.1 17.69 12.2 14.27 12.1 Professional specialty.......................................... 20.80 4.8 22.44 1.7 - - Health related................................................ 20.96 5.0 - - - - Registered nurses........................................... 20.92 5.1 € € € € Teachers, except college and university....................... - - € € - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - € € Technical....................................................... 11.95 2.6 - - - - Licensed practical nurses................................... 12.30 2.5 € € € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... - - - - € € Management related............................................ - - - - € € Sales............................................................. 7.15 7.2 7.15 7.2 € € Cashiers.................................................... 6.28 2.3 6.28 2.3 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 7.75 6.2 - - - - Blue collar......................................................... 6.93 6.6 6.82 6.5 - - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... - - - - € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... - - - - € € Transportation and material moving................................ - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.63 4.3 6.63 4.3 € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 6.39 2.3 6.39 2.3 € € Service............................................................. 6.47 3.4 6.36 3.4 - - Protective service............................................ - - - - - - Food service.................................................. 6.04 2.4 6.03 2.6 - - Other food service........................................... 6.03 2.5 6.01 2.7 € € Health service................................................ - - - - € € Cleaning and building service................................. 6.46 4.7 - - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 6.46 4.7 € € € € Personal service.............................................. - - - - € € 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2002 Total Private industry State and local government Weekly earnings Weekly earnings Weekly earnings Occupation(3) Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All................................................................... $677 4.5 40.2 $666 4.7 39.9 $705 10.4 41.0 All excluding sales............................................... 688 4.6 40.2 681 4.9 40.0 705 10.4 41.0 White collar........................................................ 821 6.5 40.6 797 7.4 40.2 878 12.3 41.7 White collar excluding sales.................................... 859 6.7 40.8 849 7.9 40.3 878 12.3 41.7 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 1,049 6.9 41.5 1,011 7.8 40.1 1,105 12.4 43.6 Professional specialty.......................................... 1,176 7.7 41.9 1,182 8.9 39.6 1,170 12.6 44.1 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... - - - - - - € € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - - - - € € € Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - € € € Health related................................................ 922 8.1 42.5 - - - - - - Registered nurses........................................... 845 1.8 38.8 845 1.8 38.9 € € € Teachers, college and university.............................. 1,829 16.0 52.0 - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 940 3.3 38.7 - - - 960 2.9 38.6 Elementary school teachers.................................. 956 3.5 38.5 € € € 984 2.7 38.4 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - € € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - € € € - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - - - - - - Technical....................................................... 730 7.0 40.6 764 6.9 40.8 528 5.5 39.0 Licensed practical nurses................................... 528 2.5 39.1 550 1.9 38.7 € € € Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 634 12.8 43.3 655 13.2 43.7 € € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 1,163 7.3 41.4 1,203 6.7 41.7 924 28.6 40.0 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 1,318 12.6 43.6 1,284 14.8 44.3 - - - Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 1,284 17.5 45.3 1,284 17.5 45.3 € € € Management related............................................ 1,061 10.3 40.0 1,151 6.5 40.0 - - - Sales............................................................. 470 9.7 39.5 470 9.7 39.5 € € € Supervisors, sales.......................................... 539 10.3 41.7 539 10.3 41.7 € € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 478 4.7 39.5 494 6.4 39.9 440 6.2 38.4 Secretaries................................................. 464 6.2 39.1 461 8.5 39.5 472 5.7 37.9 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 459 3.7 38.9 440 4.7 40.0 € € € General office clerks....................................... 560 9.4 40.0 585 9.2 40.0 433 6.6 39.7 Teachers' aides............................................. 344 2.2 36.4 € € € 344 2.2 36.4 Blue collar......................................................... 592 5.4 39.8 602 5.6 39.9 474 10.1 39.1 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 794 6.7 40.0 805 6.8 40.0 - - - Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 911 10.9 40.3 € € € € € € Industrial machinery repairers.............................. $733 6.6 39.8 $733 6.6 39.8 € € € Machinery maintenance....................................... 551 7.8 40.0 € € € € € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 693 11.3 40.0 694 11.9 40.0 € € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 553 6.5 39.8 553 6.5 39.8 € € € Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 448 7.1 39.3 448 7.1 39.3 € € € Textile sewing machine operators............................ 317 5.9 40.0 317 5.9 40.0 € € € Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 515 2.5 39.9 515 2.5 39.9 € € € Separating, filtering, and clarifying machine operators..... 514 30.0 40.0 514 30.0 40.0 € € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 696 8.1 40.0 696 8.1 40.0 € € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 460 7.5 39.9 460 7.5 39.9 € € € Transportation and material moving................................ 460 5.6 39.0 487 7.0 39.9 - - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 503 7.9 39.9 503 7.9 39.9 € € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 404 4.5 39.9 393 3.6 39.9 - - - Production helpers.......................................... 462 9.5 40.0 462 9.5 40.0 € € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 460 4.5 39.9 460 4.5 39.9 € € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 408 6.2 39.8 408 6.2 39.8 € € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 379 3.9 39.8 379 3.9 39.8 € € € Service............................................................. 381 8.2 39.5 298 3.6 38.8 $456 10.5 40.2 Protective service............................................ 456 10.7 40.8 - - - 597 5.6 41.5 Food service.................................................. 313 3.5 37.7 303 4.1 37.9 - - - Other food service........................................... 322 3.6 38.2 315 4.6 38.7 € € € Health service................................................ 312 2.8 39.4 299 4.2 39.0 - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 311 2.9 39.4 298 4.4 38.9 € € € Cleaning and building service................................. 310 4.2 38.9 285 11.2 36.2 320 3.7 40.0 Maids and housemen.......................................... 264 10.0 36.1 207 14.4 31.4 € € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 321 4.0 40.0 € € € 319 4.8 40.0 Personal service.............................................. - - - - - - - - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2002 Total Private industry State and local government Annual earnings Annual earnings Annual earnings Occupation(3) Mean Mean Mean annual annual annual Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All................................................................... $34,060 4.5 2,024 $34,484 4.7 2,067 $33,024 10.4 1,918 All excluding sales............................................... 34,548 4.6 2,022 35,218 4.9 2,068 33,024 10.4 1,918 White collar........................................................ 40,409 6.5 1,999 41,044 7.4 2,071 39,156 12.3 1,859 White collar excluding sales.................................... 42,003 6.7 1,994 43,675 7.9 2,073 39,156 12.3 1,859 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 50,332 6.9 1,991 52,211 7.8 2,071 48,002 12.4 1,892 Professional specialty.......................................... 54,715 7.7 1,949 60,717 8.9 2,036 49,880 12.6 1,879 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... - - - - - - € € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - - - - € € € Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - € € € Health related................................................ 47,807 8.1 2,204 - - - - - - Registered nurses........................................... 43,670 1.8 2,005 43,937 1.8 2,021 € € € Teachers, college and university.............................. 83,819 16.0 2,385 - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 35,848 3.3 1,475 - - - 36,571 2.9 1,471 Elementary school teachers.................................. 36,315 3.5 1,462 € € € 37,402 2.7 1,459 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - € € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - € € € - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - - - - - - Technical....................................................... 37,962 7.0 2,110 39,712 6.9 2,123 27,474 5.5 2,029 Licensed practical nurses................................... 27,471 2.5 2,032 28,593 1.9 2,012 € € € Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 32,989 12.8 2,251 34,034 13.2 2,270 € € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 59,269 7.3 2,112 61,476 6.7 2,130 46,406 28.6 2,008 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 65,206 12.6 2,159 63,902 14.8 2,205 - - - Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 66,742 17.5 2,354 66,742 17.5 2,354 € € € Management related............................................ 55,179 10.3 2,080 59,838 6.5 2,080 - - - Sales............................................................. 24,421 9.7 2,055 24,421 9.7 2,055 € € € Supervisors, sales.......................................... 28,052 10.3 2,169 28,052 10.3 2,169 € € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 23,700 4.7 1,958 25,399 6.4 2,051 20,276 6.2 1,771 Secretaries................................................. 24,009 6.2 2,020 23,964 8.5 2,055 24,119 5.7 1,935 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 23,784 3.7 2,018 22,883 4.7 2,080 € € € General office clerks....................................... 28,025 9.4 2,001 30,446 9.2 2,080 18,356 6.6 1,684 Teachers' aides............................................. 12,745 2.2 1,351 € € € 12,745 2.2 1,351 Blue collar......................................................... 30,686 5.4 2,067 31,314 5.6 2,075 23,953 10.1 1,976 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 41,275 6.7 2,079 41,847 6.8 2,080 - - - Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 47,386 10.9 2,094 € € € € € € Industrial machinery repairers.............................. $38,124 6.6 2,068 $38,124 6.6 2,068 € € € Machinery maintenance....................................... 28,629 7.8 2,080 € € € € € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 35,847 11.3 2,070 36,074 11.9 2,079 € € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 28,765 6.5 2,071 28,765 6.5 2,071 € € € Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 23,272 7.1 2,041 23,272 7.1 2,041 € € € Textile sewing machine operators............................ 16,486 5.9 2,080 16,486 5.9 2,080 € € € Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 26,786 2.5 2,076 26,786 2.5 2,076 € € € Separating, filtering, and clarifying machine operators..... 26,702 30.0 2,080 26,702 30.0 2,080 € € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 36,179 8.1 2,078 36,179 8.1 2,078 € € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 23,940 7.5 2,073 23,940 7.5 2,073 € € € Transportation and material moving................................ 23,236 5.6 1,973 25,346 7.0 2,073 - - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 26,136 7.9 2,077 26,136 7.9 2,077 € € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 21,011 4.5 2,077 20,450 3.6 2,076 - - - Production helpers.......................................... 24,023 9.5 2,078 24,023 9.5 2,078 € € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 23,902 4.5 2,077 23,902 4.5 2,077 € € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 21,194 6.2 2,071 21,194 6.2 2,071 € € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 19,696 3.9 2,071 19,696 3.9 2,071 € € € Service............................................................. 19,476 8.2 2,021 15,507 3.6 2,016 $22,958 10.5 2,025 Protective service............................................ 23,474 10.7 2,098 - - - 30,437 5.6 2,115 Food service.................................................. 15,342 3.5 1,850 15,750 4.1 1,972 - - - Other food service........................................... 15,709 3.6 1,868 16,387 4.6 2,012 € € € Health service................................................ 16,241 2.8 2,049 15,566 4.2 2,025 - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 16,151 2.9 2,049 15,508 4.4 2,024 € € € Cleaning and building service................................. 15,963 4.2 2,004 14,802 11.2 1,883 16,454 3.7 2,055 Maids and housemen.......................................... 13,713 10.0 1,876 10,767 14.4 1,635 € € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 16,500 4.0 2,057 € € € 16,378 4.8 2,052 Personal service.............................................. - - - - - - - - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-1. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) all workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2002 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $16.10 4.1 $15.80 4.6 $16.93 8.8 All excluding sales............................................... 16.47 4.2 16.29 4.8 16.93 8.8 White collar........................................................ 19.53 5.9 19.10 7.3 20.47 10.0 1....................................................... 6.93 5.2 € € € € 2....................................................... 9.44 8.0 8.49 4.7 12.23 15.6 3....................................................... 9.72 3.5 9.78 4.3 € € 4....................................................... 12.72 5.7 13.18 6.8 11.27 3.4 5....................................................... 13.11 4.8 13.47 7.7 12.61 2.6 6....................................................... 20.00 7.1 € € 17.68 5.7 7....................................................... 20.76 2.3 € € 22.66 4.9 8....................................................... 24.67 6.1 24.91 6.0 € € 9....................................................... 27.07 2.9 28.15 3.7 26.10 4.5 10........................................................ 31.25 4.6 31.25 4.6 € € 11........................................................ 33.45 1.5 € € 33.55 3.7 Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.46 29.1 € € € € White collar excluding sales.................................... 20.77 6.1 20.93 7.8 20.47 10.0 2....................................................... 10.38 8.2 9.41 2.0 12.23 15.6 3....................................................... 10.22 3.6 10.46 4.5 € € 4....................................................... 13.14 6.1 14.03 7.1 11.27 3.4 5....................................................... 12.95 4.4 13.25 8.0 12.61 2.6 6....................................................... 20.11 7.2 € € 17.68 5.7 7....................................................... 20.73 2.3 € € 22.66 4.9 8....................................................... 25.33 5.0 25.62 4.8 € € 9....................................................... 26.86 2.8 27.73 3.3 26.10 4.5 10........................................................ 31.25 4.6 31.25 4.6 € € 11........................................................ 33.45 1.5 € € 33.55 3.7 Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.46 29.1 € € € € Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.42 6.4 24.74 7.9 24.01 10.5 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.68 6.8 29.36 8.5 26.20 10.2 5....................................................... 10.87 10.1 € € € € 6....................................................... 19.14 3.2 € € € € 7....................................................... 22.17 1.9 € € 23.34 4.5 9....................................................... 26.83 3.1 28.07 3.8 26.10 4.5 11........................................................ 32.53 1.6 € € € € Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... - - - - € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - - € € Natural scientists............................................ - - - - € € Health related................................................ 21.57 11.0 - - 19.91 27.2 Registered nurses........................................... 21.52 1.9 21.87 1.4 € € Teachers, college and university.............................. 35.15 8.6 - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 24.25 3.9 - - 24.80 3.6 7....................................................... 24.33 3.2 € € € € 9....................................................... 27.69 .5 € € 27.69 .5 Elementary school teachers.................................. 24.84 4.1 € € 25.64 3.4 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - € € - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... $16.27 18.2 - - - - Technical....................................................... 16.96 8.2 $18.22 8.7 $12.91 4.4 5....................................................... 13.40 3.5 14.93 3.2 € € Licensed practical nurses................................... 13.10 3.1 13.91 2.2 € € 5....................................................... 13.08 3.4 14.06 2.3 € € Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 13.82 13.9 € € € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.02 7.6 28.81 7.3 23.12 28.6 9....................................................... 27.38 8.1 27.38 8.1 € € 10........................................................ 30.80 5.0 30.80 5.0 € € Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 30.20 12.9 28.98 14.8 - - 9....................................................... 27.19 8.9 27.19 8.9 € € 11........................................................ 36.69 4.4 € € € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 28.36 17.3 28.36 17.3 € € 9....................................................... 25.31 7.8 25.31 7.8 € € Management related............................................ 26.47 10.4 28.69 6.6 - - Sales............................................................. 10.52 8.4 10.52 8.4 € € 2....................................................... 6.80 10.3 6.80 10.3 € € 3....................................................... 7.88 7.0 7.88 7.0 € € 4....................................................... 11.54 10.0 11.54 10.0 € € 5....................................................... 14.28 19.5 14.28 19.5 € € Supervisors, sales.......................................... 12.93 10.3 12.93 10.3 € € Sales workers, other commodities............................ 7.45 20.3 7.45 20.3 € € Cashiers.................................................... 7.00 5.0 7.00 5.0 € € 2....................................................... 6.42 2.7 6.42 2.7 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.08 4.7 12.36 6.4 11.41 5.9 2....................................................... 10.37 8.3 9.41 2.0 12.31 16.3 3....................................................... 10.42 4.4 10.85 5.7 € € 4....................................................... 13.21 6.6 14.30 7.8 11.27 3.4 5....................................................... 14.45 6.1 € € 14.72 8.4 7....................................................... 15.59 7.0 15.59 7.0 € € Secretaries................................................. 11.88 6.6 11.66 9.2 12.46 5.4 4....................................................... 12.85 4.5 € € € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.64 4.3 10.80 4.7 € € 4....................................................... 11.89 3.5 € € € € General office clerks....................................... 14.01 9.4 14.64 9.2 10.90 7.2 4....................................................... 15.14 8.7 € € € € Teachers' aides............................................. 9.41 1.3 € € 9.44 1.3 Blue collar......................................................... 14.55 5.4 14.76 5.6 12.15 10.2 1....................................................... 7.74 2.3 7.68 2.4 € € 2....................................................... $9.66 4.0 $9.66 4.0 € € 3....................................................... 11.51 3.5 11.87 3.3 € € 4....................................................... 12.94 2.9 12.94 2.9 € € 5....................................................... 14.98 3.1 15.43 2.7 € € 7....................................................... 19.44 4.4 19.93 4.6 € € Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.83 6.7 20.10 6.8 - - 4....................................................... 12.89 4.4 12.89 4.4 € € 5....................................................... 15.14 4.1 15.24 4.4 € € 7....................................................... 19.23 5.3 19.85 5.7 € € Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 22.63 10.6 € € € € Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 18.43 6.5 18.43 6.5 € € 5....................................................... 15.38 6.1 15.38 6.1 € € 7....................................................... 22.42 7.9 22.42 7.9 € € Machinery maintenance....................................... 13.76 7.8 € € € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 17.31 11.3 17.35 11.9 € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.84 6.5 13.84 6.5 € € 1....................................................... 6.96 4.5 6.96 4.5 € € 2....................................................... 9.67 5.2 9.67 5.2 € € 3....................................................... 11.84 4.1 11.84 4.1 € € 4....................................................... 12.81 4.0 12.81 4.0 € € 5....................................................... 15.38 3.8 15.38 3.8 € € 7....................................................... 20.15 7.4 20.15 7.4 € € Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 11.40 6.6 11.40 6.6 € € Textile sewing machine operators............................ 7.93 5.9 7.93 5.9 € € Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 12.91 2.5 12.91 2.5 € € Separating, filtering, and clarifying machine operators..... 12.84 30.0 12.84 30.0 € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 17.29 8.3 17.29 8.3 € € 2....................................................... 8.70 14.4 8.70 14.4 € € 4....................................................... 12.54 9.3 12.54 9.3 € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 11.55 7.7 11.55 7.7 € € Transportation and material moving................................ 11.61 5.5 11.90 7.2 - - 3....................................................... 10.37 6.2 10.82 8.9 € € 4....................................................... 12.85 8.9 12.85 8.9 € € Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 12.58 7.9 12.58 7.9 € € 3....................................................... 10.82 8.9 10.82 8.9 € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.68 4.4 9.37 3.6 - - 1....................................................... 7.73 2.4 7.64 2.4 € € 2....................................................... 9.66 3.9 9.66 3.9 € € 3....................................................... 11.80 5.9 € € € € Production helpers.......................................... 11.56 9.5 11.56 9.5 € € 2....................................................... 10.53 5.1 10.53 5.1 € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.51 8.5 8.51 8.5 € € 1....................................................... $6.47 3.6 $6.47 3.6 € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 10.23 6.2 10.23 6.2 € € 1....................................................... 8.76 4.6 8.76 4.6 € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.51 3.9 9.51 3.9 € € 2....................................................... 9.74 3.1 9.74 3.1 € € Service............................................................. 8.96 7.1 7.23 2.5 $11.18 9.6 1....................................................... 6.81 2.1 6.63 2.0 7.73 5.2 2....................................................... 7.51 3.3 7.18 4.8 7.96 2.9 3....................................................... 8.45 2.5 8.18 5.2 € € 4....................................................... 10.18 7.6 10.60 11.5 € € 5....................................................... 11.91 3.4 € € € € Protective service............................................ 10.70 10.4 7.39 5.4 14.19 5.4 5....................................................... 12.20 1.5 € € € € Guards and police, except public service.................... 6.98 2.6 6.98 2.6 € € Food service.................................................. 7.29 3.7 6.95 3.6 - - 1....................................................... 6.53 5.2 6.24 5.6 € € 2....................................................... 6.95 7.7 6.95 7.7 € € 3....................................................... 8.43 2.9 € € € € Other food service........................................... 7.34 3.9 7.00 3.9 € € 1....................................................... 6.58 4.9 6.26 5.1 € € 2....................................................... 6.95 7.7 6.95 7.7 € € 3....................................................... 8.43 2.9 € € € € Cooks....................................................... 7.98 4.6 € € € € Food counter, fountain, and related......................... 6.47 4.1 6.47 4.1 € € Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 8.63 5.7 € € € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 6.79 6.9 6.35 4.9 € € Health service................................................ 7.89 2.7 7.66 3.9 - - 2....................................................... 7.62 3.6 7.55 4.9 € € Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 7.85 2.8 7.64 4.1 € € 2....................................................... 7.61 3.6 7.52 5.1 € € Cleaning and building service................................. 7.62 2.9 7.12 4.3 7.97 3.5 1....................................................... 7.23 4.1 6.85 5.5 7.64 5.8 Maids and housemen.......................................... 7.31 5.0 6.58 9.9 € € 1....................................................... 6.67 8.9 6.58 9.9 € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.53 3.8 6.90 5.5 7.94 4.4 1....................................................... 7.32 4.5 € € € € Personal service.............................................. 13.51 21.8 - - - - 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information. 3 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-2. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) full-time workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2002 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $16.83 4.2 $16.69 4.7 $17.21 9.1 All excluding sales............................................... 17.09 4.4 17.03 4.9 17.21 9.1 White collar........................................................ 20.21 6.1 19.82 7.4 21.06 10.3 2....................................................... 10.10 8.0 9.11 2.8 12.33 15.7 3....................................................... 9.91 3.8 10.03 4.8 € € 4....................................................... 12.83 5.6 13.35 6.7 11.27 3.4 5....................................................... 13.38 6.2 13.53 8.2 12.95 4.3 6....................................................... 20.00 7.1 € € 17.68 5.7 7....................................................... 20.60 2.5 € € 22.69 5.0 8....................................................... 24.67 6.1 24.91 6.0 € € 9....................................................... 27.76 2.0 28.18 3.7 27.31 1.5 10........................................................ 31.25 4.6 31.25 4.6 € € 11........................................................ 33.45 1.5 € € 33.55 3.7 Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.47 29.3 € € € € White collar excluding sales.................................... 21.07 6.3 21.07 8.0 21.06 10.3 2....................................................... 10.40 8.2 9.40 2.0 12.33 15.7 3....................................................... 10.34 3.8 10.64 4.8 € € 4....................................................... 13.14 6.1 14.06 7.2 11.27 3.4 5....................................................... 13.17 6.0 13.27 8.4 12.95 4.3 6....................................................... 20.11 7.2 € € 17.68 5.7 7....................................................... 20.58 2.5 € € 22.69 5.0 8....................................................... 25.33 5.0 25.62 4.8 € € 9....................................................... 27.54 1.8 27.76 3.3 27.31 1.5 10........................................................ 31.25 4.6 31.25 4.6 € € 11........................................................ 33.45 1.5 € € 33.55 3.7 Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.47 29.3 € € € € Professional specialty and technical.............................. 25.28 6.3 25.21 8.0 25.38 10.3 Professional specialty.......................................... 28.07 6.9 29.82 8.8 26.54 10.4 5....................................................... 10.87 10.1 € € € € 6....................................................... 19.14 3.2 € € € € 7....................................................... 22.13 2.2 € € 23.38 4.6 9....................................................... 27.64 1.7 28.12 3.9 27.31 1.5 11........................................................ 32.53 1.6 € € € € Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... - - - - € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - - € € Natural scientists............................................ - - - - € € Health related................................................ 21.69 13.1 - - - - Registered nurses........................................... 21.78 1.4 21.74 1.4 € € Teachers, college and university.............................. 35.15 8.6 - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 24.30 3.9 - - 24.86 3.5 7....................................................... 24.33 3.2 € € € € 9....................................................... 27.69 .5 € € 27.69 .5 Elementary school teachers.................................. 24.84 4.1 € € 25.64 3.4 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - € € - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - - - Technical....................................................... $17.99 7.8 $18.70 8.1 $13.54 7.0 5....................................................... 14.14 3.9 15.16 3.5 € € Licensed practical nurses................................... 13.52 3.2 14.21 2.1 € € 5....................................................... 13.48 3.5 € € € € Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 14.66 16.3 14.99 17.3 € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.06 7.6 28.86 7.3 23.12 28.6 9....................................................... 27.38 8.1 27.38 8.1 € € 10........................................................ 30.80 5.0 30.80 5.0 € € Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 30.20 12.9 28.98 14.8 - - 9....................................................... 27.19 8.9 27.19 8.9 € € 11........................................................ 36.69 4.4 € € € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 28.36 17.3 28.36 17.3 € € 9....................................................... 25.31 7.8 25.31 7.8 € € Management related............................................ 26.53 10.3 28.77 6.5 - - Sales............................................................. 11.88 9.7 11.88 9.7 € € 4....................................................... 11.84 10.4 11.84 10.4 € € 5....................................................... 14.51 19.8 14.51 19.8 € € Supervisors, sales.......................................... 12.93 10.3 12.93 10.3 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.10 4.8 12.39 6.4 11.45 5.9 2....................................................... 10.37 8.4 9.40 2.0 12.36 16.4 3....................................................... 10.48 4.5 10.96 5.8 € € 4....................................................... 13.21 6.6 14.30 7.8 11.27 3.4 5....................................................... 14.45 6.1 € € 14.72 8.4 7....................................................... 15.59 7.0 15.59 7.0 € € Secretaries................................................. 11.88 6.6 11.66 9.2 12.46 5.4 4....................................................... 12.85 4.5 € € € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.79 4.3 11.00 4.7 € € 4....................................................... 11.89 3.5 € € € € General office clerks....................................... 14.01 9.4 14.64 9.2 10.90 7.2 4....................................................... 15.14 8.7 € € € € Teachers' aides............................................. 9.44 1.3 € € 9.44 1.3 Blue collar......................................................... 14.85 5.3 15.09 5.5 12.12 10.2 1....................................................... 8.10 1.7 8.06 1.8 € € 2....................................................... 9.66 4.2 9.66 4.2 € € 3....................................................... 11.51 3.5 11.89 3.2 € € 4....................................................... 12.94 2.9 12.94 2.9 € € 5....................................................... 14.98 3.1 15.43 2.7 € € 7....................................................... 19.44 4.4 19.93 4.6 € € Precision production, craft, and repair........................... $19.85 6.7 $20.12 6.8 - - 4....................................................... 12.89 4.4 12.89 4.4 € € 5....................................................... 15.14 4.1 15.24 4.4 € € 7....................................................... 19.23 5.3 19.85 5.7 € € Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 22.63 10.6 € € € € Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 18.43 6.5 18.43 6.5 € € 5....................................................... 15.38 6.1 15.38 6.1 € € 7....................................................... 22.42 7.9 22.42 7.9 € € Machinery maintenance....................................... 13.76 7.8 € € € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 17.31 11.3 17.35 11.9 € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.89 6.5 13.89 6.5 € € 1....................................................... 7.06 5.1 7.06 5.1 € € 2....................................................... 9.67 5.2 9.67 5.2 € € 3....................................................... 11.84 4.1 11.84 4.1 € € 4....................................................... 12.81 4.0 12.81 4.0 € € 5....................................................... 15.38 3.8 15.38 3.8 € € 7....................................................... 20.15 7.4 20.15 7.4 € € Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 11.40 6.6 11.40 6.6 € € Textile sewing machine operators............................ 7.93 5.9 7.93 5.9 € € Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 12.91 2.5 12.91 2.5 € € Separating, filtering, and clarifying machine operators..... 12.84 30.0 12.84 30.0 € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 17.41 8.1 17.41 8.1 € € 2....................................................... 8.70 14.4 8.70 14.4 € € 4....................................................... 12.54 9.3 12.54 9.3 € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 11.55 7.7 11.55 7.7 € € Transportation and material moving................................ 11.78 5.5 12.23 7.0 - - 3....................................................... 10.28 6.1 10.82 8.9 € € 4....................................................... 12.85 8.9 12.85 8.9 € € Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 12.58 7.9 12.58 7.9 € € 3....................................................... 10.82 8.9 10.82 8.9 € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.12 4.5 9.85 3.6 - - 1....................................................... 8.09 1.5 8.04 1.6 € € 2....................................................... 9.75 4.1 9.75 4.1 € € 3....................................................... 11.88 5.9 € € € € Production helpers.......................................... 11.56 9.5 11.56 9.5 € € 2....................................................... 10.53 5.1 10.53 5.1 € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 11.51 4.5 11.51 4.5 € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 10.23 6.2 10.23 6.2 € € 1....................................................... 8.76 4.6 8.76 4.6 € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.51 3.9 9.51 3.9 € € 2....................................................... 9.74 3.1 9.74 3.1 € € Service............................................................. $9.64 7.6 $7.69 3.2 $11.33 9.8 1....................................................... 7.22 2.8 7.03 3.0 7.92 6.0 2....................................................... 7.76 2.4 7.61 4.1 € € 3....................................................... 8.53 2.5 € € € € 4....................................................... 10.48 7.7 11.24 11.5 € € 5....................................................... 11.76 3.3 € € € € Protective service............................................ 11.19 10.1 - - 14.39 5.6 Food service.................................................. 8.29 2.4 7.99 2.7 - - 1....................................................... 7.56 7.5 7.09 10.5 € € Other food service........................................... 8.41 2.7 8.15 3.3 € € Health service................................................ 7.92 2.9 7.69 4.4 - - 2....................................................... 7.62 3.9 7.53 5.6 € € Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 7.88 2.9 7.66 4.5 € € 2....................................................... 7.60 3.9 € € € € Cleaning and building service................................. 7.97 3.2 7.86 6.2 8.01 3.7 1....................................................... 7.52 4.9 7.24 8.1 € € Maids and housemen.......................................... 7.31 5.0 6.58 9.9 € € 1....................................................... 6.67 8.9 6.58 9.9 € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.02 4.0 € € 7.98 4.8 1....................................................... 7.78 6.0 € € € € Personal service.............................................. - - - - - - 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-3. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) part-time workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2002 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $8.91 8.3 $7.99 8.7 $12.87 11.8 All excluding sales............................................... 9.34 9.6 8.25 10.8 12.87 11.8 White collar........................................................ 11.75 10.3 10.57 14.4 14.09 11.9 2....................................................... 6.64 7.7 6.63 7.9 € € 5....................................................... 12.32 1.4 € € € € 7....................................................... 22.15 2.4 € € € € White collar excluding sales.................................... 15.28 9.8 16.99 12.6 14.09 11.9 5....................................................... 12.38 1.5 € € € € 7....................................................... 22.15 2.4 € € € € Professional specialty and technical.............................. 15.61 10.1 17.69 12.2 14.27 12.1 Professional specialty.......................................... 20.80 4.8 22.44 1.7 - - Health related................................................ 20.96 5.0 - - - - Registered nurses........................................... 20.92 5.1 € € € € Teachers, except college and university....................... - - € € - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - € € Technical....................................................... 11.95 2.6 - - - - 5....................................................... 12.38 1.5 € € € € Licensed practical nurses................................... 12.30 2.5 € € € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... - - - - € € Management related............................................ - - - - € € Sales............................................................. 7.15 7.2 7.15 7.2 € € 2....................................................... 6.57 8.1 6.57 8.1 € € Cashiers.................................................... 6.28 2.3 6.28 2.3 € € 2....................................................... 6.37 3.2 6.37 3.2 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 7.75 6.2 - - - - Blue collar......................................................... 6.93 6.6 6.82 6.5 - - 1....................................................... 6.41 4.2 6.41 4.2 € € Precision production, craft, and repair........................... - - - - € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... - - - - € € Transportation and material moving................................ - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.63 4.3 6.63 4.3 € € 1....................................................... 6.53 4.5 6.53 4.5 € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 6.39 2.3 6.39 2.3 € € 1....................................................... 6.25 1.8 6.25 1.8 € € Service............................................................. $6.47 3.4 $6.36 3.4 - - 1....................................................... 6.05 2.1 5.99 2.0 € € 2....................................................... 6.69 6.5 6.40 4.5 € € Protective service............................................ - - - - - - Food service.................................................. 6.04 2.4 6.03 2.6 - - 1....................................................... 5.83 2.7 5.79 2.8 € € Other food service........................................... 6.03 2.5 6.01 2.7 € € 1....................................................... 5.80 2.8 € € € € Health service................................................ - - - - € € Cleaning and building service................................. 6.46 4.7 - - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 6.46 4.7 € € € € Personal service.............................................. - - - - € € 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 5-1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2002 Private industry and State and local government Occupational group Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) 3) 3) Mean All occupations....................................................... $16.83 $8.91 $15.52 $16.14 $16.13 $13.91 All excluding sales............................................. 17.09 9.34 15.47 16.53 16.48 - White collar........................................................ 20.21 11.75 15.08 19.64 19.58 16.31 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 21.07 15.28 - 20.86 20.72 - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 25.28 15.61 - 24.44 24.42 € Professional specialty.......................................... 28.07 20.80 € 27.68 27.68 € Technical....................................................... 17.99 11.95 - 16.93 16.96 € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.06 - € 28.02 27.82 - Sales............................................................. 11.88 7.15 - 10.02 10.30 12.43 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.10 7.75 - 12.02 12.08 € Blue collar......................................................... 14.85 6.93 15.65 14.35 14.62 - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.85 - 19.31 19.93 19.83 € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.89 - 15.47 13.55 13.96 - Transportation and material moving................................ 11.78 - - 11.34 11.61 € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.12 6.63 11.80 9.21 9.69 - Service............................................................. 9.64 6.47 - 8.96 8.96 € B Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- Occupational group workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) 3) 3) Relative error(6) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 4.2 8.3 4.2 4.3 4.1 14.0 All excluding sales............................................. 4.4 9.6 4.2 4.5 4.2 - White collar........................................................ 6.1 10.3 10.2 6.1 6.0 13.1 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 6.3 9.8 - 6.2 6.1 - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 6.3 10.1 - 6.4 6.4 € Professional specialty.......................................... 6.9 4.8 € 6.8 6.8 € Technical....................................................... 7.8 2.6 - 8.3 8.2 € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 7.6 - € 7.6 7.8 - Sales............................................................. 9.7 7.2 - 7.5 8.7 25.3 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 4.8 6.2 - 4.9 4.7 € Blue collar......................................................... 5.3 6.6 4.5 6.4 5.4 - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 6.7 - 4.8 7.8 6.7 € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 6.5 - 7.5 7.9 6.5 - Transportation and material moving................................ 5.5 - - 5.8 5.5 € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.5 4.3 5.5 5.2 4.4 - Service............................................................. 7.6 3.4 - 7.1 7.1 € 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 5 Time workers' wages are based solely on an hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 6 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 5-2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2002 Full-time and part-time workers Goods-producing indust- Service-producing industries(4) ries(3) Occupational group All pri- vate indus- Trans- Wholesale Finance, tries Con- Manu- portation and insur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and pub- retail ance, and ices tion turing lic trade real utilities estate Mean All occupations....................................................... $15.80 $19.89 - $22.72 $19.67 - - - - $13.93 All excluding sales............................................. 16.29 19.90 - 22.72 19.67 - - - - 13.84 White collar........................................................ 19.10 27.05 € - - - - - - 18.93 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 20.93 27.39 € - - - - - - 18.81 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.74 - € - - - - - € 20.49 Professional specialty.......................................... 29.36 - € - - - € - € 22.66 Technical....................................................... 18.22 - € € - - - - € 17.77 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.81 32.16 € - - - - - € 26.35 Sales............................................................. 10.52 19.45 € € 19.45 - - - € - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.36 14.97 € - 15.13 - - - - 12.21 Blue collar......................................................... 14.76 15.74 - 12.75 15.90 - € - € 12.25 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 20.10 20.99 € 14.35 21.73 - € - € 17.60 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.84 14.12 - € 14.11 - € - € - Transportation and material moving................................ 11.90 12.56 - - 12.59 - € - € - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.37 10.47 € - 10.61 - € - € - Service............................................................. 7.23 - € € - - € - € 7.12 B Goods-producing indust- Service-producing industries(4) ries(3) All pri- vate Occupational group indus- Trans- Wholesale Finance, tries Con- Manu- portation and insur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and pub- retail ance, and ices tion turing lic trade real utilities estate Relative error(5) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 4.6 5.4 - 10.1 6.0 - - - - 4.0 All excluding sales............................................. 4.8 5.5 - 10.1 6.1 - - - - 3.9 White collar........................................................ 7.3 7.5 € - - - - - - 3.5 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 7.8 7.7 € - - - - - - 3.5 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 7.9 - € - - - - - € 3.0 Professional specialty.......................................... 8.5 - € - - - € - € 3.6 Technical....................................................... 8.7 - € € - - - - € 4.9 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 7.3 3.3 € - - - - - € 9.2 Sales............................................................. 8.4 11.3 € € 11.3 - - - € - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 6.4 6.5 € - 6.7 - - - - 6.1 Blue collar......................................................... 5.6 5.7 - 3.7 5.9 - € - € 10.1 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 6.8 7.0 € 3.7 6.7 - € - € 5.3 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 6.5 6.2 - € 6.2 - € - € - Transportation and material moving................................ 7.2 7.3 - - 7.9 - € - € - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 3.6 3.2 € - 3.4 - € - € - Service............................................................. 2.5 - € € - - € - € 1.9 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 4 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 5-3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2002 Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All 50 - 99 private workers(- industry 3) 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Mean All occupations....................................................... $15.80 $9.92 $16.93 $12.67 $20.34 All excluding sales............................................. 16.29 10.11 17.37 13.02 20.33 White collar........................................................ 19.10 11.95 19.98 13.34 25.56 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 20.93 14.73 21.40 14.41 25.59 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.74 20.05 24.89 15.68 27.94 Professional specialty.......................................... 29.36 20.98 29.69 20.65 31.10 Technical....................................................... 18.22 - 18.23 13.39 21.55 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.81 16.81 30.77 28.66 31.54 Sales............................................................. 10.52 8.92 11.20 10.78 - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.36 10.63 12.52 10.97 14.83 Blue collar......................................................... 14.76 10.60 15.56 13.02 17.51 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 20.10 14.34 21.31 17.22 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.84 9.70 14.34 12.08 16.46 Transportation and material moving................................ 11.90 8.04 12.87 12.80 12.95 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.37 7.88 9.83 9.41 10.12 Service............................................................. 7.23 6.81 7.44 8.11 6.96 B Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All 50 - 99 private workers(- industry 3) 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Relative error(4) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 4.6 5.8 5.0 4.0 5.7 All excluding sales............................................. 4.8 6.6 5.1 4.1 5.7 White collar........................................................ 7.3 12.3 7.9 7.1 6.4 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 7.8 13.0 8.2 9.5 6.5 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 7.9 13.8 8.1 8.2 7.8 Professional specialty.......................................... 8.5 21.6 8.6 8.1 8.9 Technical....................................................... 8.7 - 8.9 8.3 5.3 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 7.3 34.9 4.0 8.9 3.8 Sales............................................................. 8.4 18.1 9.9 9.3 - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 6.4 4.3 7.1 3.2 6.6 Blue collar......................................................... 5.6 5.5 5.8 4.2 7.3 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 6.8 3.9 6.6 3.9 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 6.5 12.1 6.3 5.1 7.3 Transportation and material moving................................ 7.2 16.0 6.4 8.2 9.9 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 3.6 3.2 4.5 8.3 4.8 Service............................................................. 2.5 3.3 3.1 5.3 1.6 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2002 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $7.17 $9.00 $12.42 $21.35 $29.19 All excluding sales........................... 7.19 9.31 12.96 21.44 29.19 White collar.................................... 8.96 11.02 17.28 26.24 34.19 White collar excluding sales................ 9.46 11.86 18.95 27.44 34.67 Professional specialty and technical.......... 11.86 17.68 24.08 28.59 40.42 Professional specialty...................... 16.06 21.30 27.44 32.70 40.42 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists...... - - - - - Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ 11.73 19.05 21.47 25.00 32.70 Registered nurses....................... 19.05 21.35 21.47 21.65 22.90 Teachers, college and university.......... 21.14 26.63 39.84 40.42 40.42 Teachers, except college and university... 17.68 19.66 27.44 27.44 27.85 Elementary school teachers.............. 18.95 24.54 27.44 27.44 27.44 Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 11.69 11.69 12.50 18.03 22.13 Technical................................... 11.05 12.00 16.00 21.25 24.39 Licensed practical nurses............... 11.69 12.00 12.63 14.30 15.00 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................................ 9.68 11.05 12.33 14.76 21.25 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 12.07 23.88 31.79 32.93 36.11 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 8.51 21.13 34.19 36.11 45.08 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 8.51 21.13 28.85 36.11 48.56 Management related........................ 12.07 23.88 29.09 32.93 32.93 Sales......................................... 5.77 7.17 8.90 11.09 17.13 Supervisors, sales...................... 10.76 11.35 11.47 12.90 21.38 Sales workers, other commodities........ 5.15 5.15 5.77 11.09 11.09 Cashiers................................ 5.88 6.14 6.77 7.17 8.90 Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.96 9.46 11.02 13.53 17.55 Secretaries............................. 8.93 8.93 11.97 13.33 17.99 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 8.75 10.62 12.28 12.28 12.97 General office clerks................... 9.11 10.04 15.41 17.55 17.55 Teachers' aides......................... 9.19 9.27 9.31 9.57 10.01 Blue collar..................................... 7.59 9.54 12.83 18.35 24.45 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 11.85 13.65 18.47 24.45 29.19 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers.... 16.28 16.28 22.98 26.58 26.58 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 12.90 13.10 18.13 26.63 26.63 Machinery maintenance................... 9.25 12.33 13.00 15.61 15.61 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 10.63 13.04 16.28 25.19 25.19 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 7.58 9.79 12.40 17.35 21.44 Winding and twisting machine operators.. $9.10 $9.54 $9.54 $14.69 $14.69 Textile sewing machine operators........ 6.10 6.43 8.04 9.60 9.95 Mixing and blending machine operators... 11.30 12.25 12.40 12.77 13.23 Separating, filtering, and clarifying machine operators.................... 6.83 6.83 6.83 20.45 23.99 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 9.73 13.94 18.93 21.44 21.44 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 8.40 9.11 9.60 14.90 16.17 Transportation and material moving............ 8.85 9.54 11.64 13.18 16.00 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 8.90 8.90 12.30 13.94 18.35 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 6.53 7.59 8.44 10.80 12.83 Production helpers...................... 7.75 9.57 11.38 12.24 18.08 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.92 6.25 6.75 10.80 12.83 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 8.00 8.05 9.71 12.83 12.83 Hand packers and packagers.............. 7.61 7.84 9.69 10.80 10.80 Service......................................... 5.96 6.50 7.81 9.15 13.82 Protective service........................ 6.44 6.63 10.67 13.46 17.79 Guards and police, except public service 5.95 6.44 6.63 7.75 7.75 Food service.............................. 5.57 6.06 7.18 8.33 9.04 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... 5.57 6.06 7.25 8.33 9.04 Cooks................................... 6.25 6.51 8.33 8.33 9.04 Food counter, fountain, and related..... 5.37 5.37 5.96 7.81 7.81 Kitchen workers, food preparation....... 6.51 7.18 9.40 9.65 10.35 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 5.57 6.06 6.06 8.16 8.68 Health service............................ 6.62 7.10 7.81 8.55 8.97 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 6.62 7.10 7.81 8.55 8.97 Cleaning and building service............. 5.95 7.07 7.84 8.31 9.01 Maids and housemen...................... 5.98 6.00 7.84 7.84 7.84 Janitors and cleaners................... 5.95 7.07 7.37 8.31 9.01 Personal service.......................... 5.68 7.74 19.11 19.11 19.11 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation's employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation's employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry, National Compensation Survey, Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2002 Private industry Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $6.63 $8.83 $12.57 $21.44 $28.59 All excluding sales........................... 6.67 8.97 13.10 21.47 29.19 White collar.................................... 8.51 10.15 17.25 25.00 32.93 White collar excluding sales................ 9.33 11.86 19.29 27.72 33.75 Professional specialty and technical.......... 11.99 19.29 23.01 28.59 46.31 Professional specialty...................... 21.10 21.65 28.59 33.71 46.31 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists...... - - - - - Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ - - - - - Registered nurses....................... 20.98 21.35 21.47 22.65 22.90 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 9.68 13.60 19.29 24.39 24.39 Licensed practical nurses............... 12.63 13.60 14.30 14.71 15.00 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 16.72 24.53 32.93 32.93 36.11 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 8.51 21.13 31.79 36.11 48.56 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 8.51 21.13 28.85 36.11 48.56 Management related........................ 17.97 25.20 32.93 32.93 32.93 Sales......................................... 5.77 7.17 8.90 11.09 17.13 Supervisors, sales...................... 10.76 11.35 11.47 12.90 21.38 Sales workers, other commodities........ 5.15 5.15 5.77 11.09 11.09 Cashiers................................ 5.88 6.14 6.77 7.17 8.90 Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.93 9.33 11.02 14.51 17.55 Secretaries............................. 8.93 8.93 8.96 14.51 17.99 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 8.30 9.00 10.62 12.75 12.97 General office clerks................... 9.11 10.86 17.55 17.55 17.55 Blue collar..................................... 7.59 9.56 12.83 18.93 24.45 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 11.85 13.65 20.41 25.19 29.19 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 12.90 13.10 18.13 26.63 26.63 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 10.63 13.04 14.40 25.19 25.19 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 7.58 9.79 12.40 17.35 21.44 Winding and twisting machine operators.. 9.10 9.54 9.54 14.69 14.69 Textile sewing machine operators........ 6.10 6.43 8.04 9.60 9.95 Mixing and blending machine operators... 11.30 12.25 12.40 12.77 13.23 Separating, filtering, and clarifying machine operators.................... $6.83 $6.83 $6.83 $20.45 $23.99 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 9.73 13.94 18.93 21.44 21.44 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 8.40 9.11 9.60 14.90 16.17 Transportation and material moving............ 8.11 8.90 12.08 13.94 18.35 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 8.90 8.90 12.30 13.94 18.35 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 6.48 7.59 8.20 10.80 12.83 Production helpers...................... 7.75 9.57 11.38 12.24 18.08 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.92 6.25 6.75 10.80 12.83 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 8.00 8.05 9.71 12.83 12.83 Hand packers and packagers.............. 7.61 7.84 9.69 10.80 10.80 Service......................................... 5.95 6.06 6.63 7.75 9.04 Protective service........................ 5.95 6.44 6.63 7.75 7.75 Guards and police, except public service 5.95 6.44 6.63 7.75 7.75 Food service.............................. 5.37 5.96 6.46 7.81 9.04 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... 5.37 5.96 6.46 7.81 8.55 Food counter, fountain, and related..... 5.37 5.37 5.96 7.81 7.81 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 5.57 6.06 6.06 6.67 8.16 Health service............................ 6.35 7.19 7.36 8.97 8.97 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 6.35 7.19 7.36 8.97 8.97 Cleaning and building service............. 5.30 5.95 6.24 8.31 9.50 Maids and housemen...................... 5.25 5.98 5.98 6.21 8.91 Janitors and cleaners................... 5.30 5.95 6.24 8.31 9.04 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation's employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation's employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2002 State and local government Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $8.30 $9.99 $12.33 $20.97 $32.70 All excluding sales........................... 8.30 9.99 12.33 20.97 32.70 White collar.................................... 9.99 11.73 17.28 27.44 39.84 White collar excluding sales................ 9.99 11.73 17.28 27.44 39.84 Professional specialty and technical.......... 11.73 15.90 24.54 29.10 39.84 Professional specialty...................... 11.73 19.05 27.44 32.70 40.42 Health related............................ 11.73 11.73 18.74 32.70 32.70 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... 17.68 20.97 27.44 27.44 27.85 Elementary school teachers.............. 19.66 25.26 27.44 27.44 27.44 Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 11.69 12.00 12.33 12.63 16.00 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 12.07 12.07 15.19 34.53 45.08 Executives, administrators, and managers.. - - - - - Management related........................ - - - - - Administrative support, including clerical.... 9.31 9.61 10.04 12.28 17.28 Secretaries............................. 11.43 11.97 11.97 11.97 17.15 General office clerks................... 9.67 10.04 10.04 13.23 13.23 Teachers' aides......................... 9.19 9.27 9.31 9.57 10.01 Blue collar..................................... 8.44 9.54 11.64 15.61 16.56 Precision production, craft, and repair....... - - - - - Transportation and material moving............ - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... - - - - - Service......................................... 7.10 8.24 9.01 13.46 17.79 Protective service........................ 11.60 11.91 12.53 16.93 21.12 Food service.............................. - - - - - Other food service....................... - - - - - Health service............................ - - - - - Cleaning and building service............. 7.07 7.15 7.84 8.24 9.01 Janitors and cleaners................... 7.07 7.07 8.24 8.61 9.01 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation's employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation's employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2002 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $7.81 $9.54 $13.23 $21.47 $29.19 All excluding sales........................... 7.81 9.57 13.53 21.65 29.19 White collar.................................... 9.31 11.34 17.55 27.44 34.53 White collar excluding sales................ 9.46 11.84 19.17 27.85 35.48 Professional specialty and technical.......... 11.86 19.17 24.39 28.80 40.42 Professional specialty...................... 15.90 21.35 27.44 32.70 45.01 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists...... - - - - - Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ 11.73 19.55 21.47 25.86 32.70 Registered nurses....................... 21.35 21.35 21.47 21.65 24.74 Teachers, college and university.......... 21.14 26.63 39.84 40.42 40.42 Teachers, except college and university... 17.68 19.66 27.44 27.44 27.85 Elementary school teachers.............. 18.95 24.54 27.44 27.44 27.44 Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 11.69 12.63 19.17 24.39 24.39 Licensed practical nurses............... 11.69 12.63 13.86 14.71 15.00 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................................ 9.68 11.05 11.86 21.25 21.25 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 12.07 23.88 31.79 32.93 36.11 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 8.51 21.13 34.19 36.11 45.08 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 8.51 21.13 28.85 36.11 48.56 Management related........................ 12.07 23.88 29.09 32.93 32.93 Sales......................................... 7.17 8.37 10.76 11.90 20.10 Supervisors, sales...................... 10.76 11.35 11.47 12.90 21.38 Administrative support, including clerical.... 9.00 9.46 11.02 13.53 17.55 Secretaries............................. 8.93 8.93 11.97 13.33 17.99 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 9.00 10.62 12.28 12.75 12.97 General office clerks................... 9.11 10.04 15.41 17.55 17.55 Teachers' aides......................... 9.19 9.27 9.31 9.57 10.01 Blue collar..................................... 8.00 9.71 12.92 18.60 24.45 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 12.10 13.99 18.47 24.45 29.19 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers.... 16.28 16.28 22.98 26.58 26.58 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 12.90 13.10 18.13 26.63 26.63 Machinery maintenance................... 9.25 12.33 13.00 15.61 15.61 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 10.63 13.04 16.28 25.19 25.19 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 8.06 9.79 12.40 17.35 21.44 Winding and twisting machine operators.. 9.10 9.54 9.54 14.69 14.69 Textile sewing machine operators........ 6.10 6.43 8.04 9.60 9.95 Mixing and blending machine operators... $11.30 $12.25 $12.40 $12.77 $13.23 Separating, filtering, and clarifying machine operators.................... 6.83 6.83 6.83 20.45 23.99 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 10.40 13.94 18.93 21.44 21.44 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 8.40 9.11 9.60 14.90 16.17 Transportation and material moving............ 8.90 9.54 11.64 13.67 16.00 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 8.90 8.90 12.30 13.94 18.35 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 7.59 7.76 8.73 11.38 12.83 Production helpers...................... 7.75 9.57 11.38 12.24 18.08 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 7.76 10.46 12.68 12.83 12.83 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 8.00 8.05 9.71 12.83 12.83 Hand packers and packagers.............. 7.61 7.84 9.69 10.80 10.80 Service......................................... 6.46 7.17 8.30 11.60 16.83 Protective service........................ 6.44 7.17 11.60 13.46 17.79 Food service.............................. 6.67 7.81 8.33 8.68 9.65 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... 6.67 7.81 8.33 8.68 9.42 Health service............................ 6.62 7.10 8.16 8.55 8.97 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 6.62 7.10 7.50 8.55 8.97 Cleaning and building service............. 7.07 7.07 8.24 8.61 9.01 Maids and housemen...................... 5.98 6.00 7.84 7.84 7.84 Janitors and cleaners................... 7.07 7.07 8.24 8.61 9.01 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation's employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation's employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-5. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2002 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $5.50 $5.95 $6.51 $9.73 $17.35 All excluding sales........................... 5.57 5.95 6.45 12.00 19.05 White collar.................................... 5.88 7.16 9.98 13.60 22.13 White collar excluding sales................ 9.33 12.00 12.33 19.05 22.90 Professional specialty and technical.......... 10.35 12.00 12.33 19.05 22.90 Professional specialty...................... 19.05 19.05 20.98 22.90 22.90 Health related............................ 19.05 19.05 20.98 22.90 22.90 Registered nurses....................... 19.05 19.05 20.98 22.90 22.90 Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 9.33 12.00 12.33 12.33 12.83 Licensed practical nurses............... 11.99 12.00 12.00 12.00 13.96 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... - - - - - Management related........................ - - - - - Sales......................................... 5.15 5.96 6.77 7.91 9.73 Cashiers................................ 5.70 6.01 6.14 6.70 6.80 Administrative support, including clerical.... 5.28 7.38 7.41 8.29 10.89 Blue collar..................................... 5.30 5.95 6.32 7.19 8.74 Precision production, craft, and repair....... - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. - - - - - Transportation and material moving............ - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 5.79 6.22 6.31 6.75 8.74 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.69 5.95 6.27 6.57 6.83 Service......................................... 5.37 5.95 5.96 6.25 7.81 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 5.37 5.57 6.06 6.25 6.51 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... 5.37 5.57 6.06 6.06 6.51 Health service............................ - - - - - Cleaning and building service............. 5.30 5.95 6.24 6.24 7.37 Janitors and cleaners................... 5.30 5.95 6.24 6.24 7.37 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation's employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation's employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2002 Full-time and part-time workers Occupational group Private State and Total industry local government All occupations....................................................... 101,000 73,000 28,000 All excluding sales............................................. 94,000 66,100 28,000 White collar........................................................ 52,900 35,200 17,700 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 46,000 28,300 17,700 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26,300 14,200 12,100 Professional specialty.......................................... 17,900 8,300 9,600 Technical....................................................... 8,400 5,900 2,500 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 5,000 4,300 700 Sales............................................................. 6,900 6,900 € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 14,700 9,800 4,900 Blue collar......................................................... 28,200 25,900 2,300 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 8,500 8,000 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10,000 10,000 € Transportation and material moving................................ 2,600 1,700 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 7,100 6,100 - Service............................................................. 19,900 11,900 8,000 1 The number of workers represented by the survey are rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of the number of workers provide a description of size and composition of the labor force included in the survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for comparison to other statistical series to measure employment trends or levels. Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the survey. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria.