NC BL 04/00/2003 Table: Huntsville, AL, Bulletin 3115-56, June 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, Huntsville, AL, June 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................................................................. $19.41 2.7 38.1 $19.52 3.1 38.1 $18.98 6.0 37.7 Worker characteristics:(4) White-collar occupations(5)......................................... 23.05 3.1 38.5 23.42 3.6 38.5 21.97 7.6 38.3 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 27.62 4.2 39.2 29.37 3.5 39.8 23.90 10.4 37.9 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.20 2.6 40.2 33.72 2.9 40.2 31.28 6.8 40.1 Sales............................................................. 12.11 7.2 34.5 12.12 7.5 34.4 - - - Administrative support............................................ 12.75 5.1 38.7 12.89 6.5 38.7 12.34 6.0 38.8 Blue-collar occupations(5).......................................... 17.05 3.5 39.2 17.13 3.7 39.3 16.19 8.4 38.7 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.82 3.7 39.7 18.78 4.0 39.6 19.02 9.8 40.3 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors....................................................... 18.08 4.1 39.6 18.08 4.1 39.6 - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 13.33 6.4 38.3 13.14 8.5 39.5 13.90 5.2 35.0 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers..................................................... 10.26 3.9 37.2 10.04 4.6 36.7 - - - Service occupations(5).............................................. 8.41 8.3 32.8 6.83 8.4 31.4 10.88 10.0 35.1 Full time........................................................... 20.12 2.5 39.6 20.30 2.9 39.8 19.44 5.6 38.7 Part time........................................................... 8.49 11.1 23.8 8.54 12.7 23.8 8.23 15.7 23.9 Union............................................................... 21.96 2.6 39.7 21.96 2.6 39.7 - - - Nonunion............................................................ 18.81 3.3 37.7 18.75 4.0 37.7 18.98 6.0 37.7 Time................................................................ 19.33 3.1 38.0 19.43 3.6 38.1 18.98 6.0 37.7 Incentive........................................................... 24.96 38.1 43.4 24.96 38.1 43.4 - - - Establishment characteristics: Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 21.79 1.4 39.8 (6) (6) (6) Service producing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 16.94 7.5 36.4 (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers(7).................................................... 13.69 13.1 37.3 13.54 13.7 37.3 - - - 100-499 workers..................................................... 16.67 7.5 37.3 16.76 7.7 37.3 - - - 500 workers or more................................................. 22.81 2.2 38.8 24.81 2.5 39.4 19.33 6.1 37.7 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, Huntsville, AL, June 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................................................................... $19.41 2.7 $19.52 3.1 $18.98 6.0 All excluding sales............................................... 20.01 2.8 20.26 3.3 19.11 6.0 White collar........................................................ 23.05 3.1 23.42 3.6 21.97 7.6 White collar excluding sales.................................... 24.82 2.4 25.83 2.3 22.26 7.7 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 27.62 4.2 29.37 3.5 23.90 10.4 Professional specialty.......................................... 29.90 5.2 32.22 2.3 25.33 11.5 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 33.54 4.6 33.86 4.5 - - Aerospace engineers......................................... 34.07 6.0 34.07 6.0 - - Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 32.67 3.6 33.21 2.8 - - Industrial engineers........................................ 32.30 6.7 32.30 6.7 - - Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 33.58 4.4 33.58 4.4 - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 33.17 5.4 33.25 5.5 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 33.07 5.1 33.15 5.2 - - Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - Health related................................................ 30.94 10.3 22.94 7.6 - - Registered nurses........................................... 28.24 12.3 - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 24.81 3.3 15.79 23.0 - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 15.11 22.5 21.26 9.5 - - Technical....................................................... 19.06 2.8 19.78 2.9 17.04 2.0 Licensed practical nurses................................... 12.66 3.9 12.40 5.3 - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 18.18 17.0 17.98 20.2 - - Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 23.13 4.7 23.13 4.7 - - Drafters.................................................... 20.93 7.4 20.93 7.4 - - Computer programmers........................................ 21.97 16.9 - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.20 2.6 33.72 2.9 31.28 6.8 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 37.65 3.3 40.09 4.0 32.34 6.6 Administrators, education and related fields................ 37.72 3.8 - - - - Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 41.55 4.1 41.55 4.2 - - Management related............................................ 26.59 3.0 26.79 3.2 - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 28.57 11.8 30.17 13.8 - - Management related, n.e.c................................... 21.50 9.1 21.50 9.1 - - Sales............................................................. 12.11 7.2 12.12 7.5 - - Supervisors, sales.......................................... 15.20 10.5 15.20 10.5 - - Sales workers, apparel...................................... 9.56 2.5 9.56 2.5 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 11.94 6.0 11.41 5.6 - - Cashiers.................................................... 7.91 7.5 7.69 7.8 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.75 5.1 12.89 6.5 12.34 6.0 Secretaries................................................. $15.36 11.0 $16.15 16.4 - - Receptionists............................................... 9.56 10.3 9.56 10.3 - - Order clerks................................................ 13.36 6.3 13.36 6.3 - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 13.71 6.7 13.45 11.7 - - Production coordinators..................................... 18.04 16.4 - - - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 13.08 5.2 13.08 5.2 - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 12.29 12.6 12.29 12.6 - - Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c.................................................... 8.79 9.2 8.79 9.2 - - General office clerks....................................... 10.17 3.7 10.39 5.8 - - Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 16.63 23.5 16.63 23.5 - - Blue collar......................................................... 17.05 3.5 17.13 3.7 $16.19 8.4 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.82 3.7 18.78 4.0 19.02 9.8 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 23.32 1.1 23.32 1.1 - - Machinery maintenance....................................... 15.08 9.4 15.08 9.4 - - Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 16.38 11.1 - - - - Supervisors, production..................................... 20.29 4.0 19.07 1.7 - - Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 8.13 2.6 8.13 2.6 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 18.08 4.1 18.08 4.1 - - Punching and stamping press operators....................... 12.23 4.8 12.23 4.8 - - Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 11.42 5.8 11.42 5.8 - - Molding and casting machine operators....................... 13.39 3.5 13.39 3.5 - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 9.02 5.0 9.02 5.0 - - Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 16.42 5.9 16.42 5.9 - - Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 19.87 7.2 19.87 7.2 - - Assemblers.................................................. 19.42 1.8 19.42 1.8 - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 17.13 7.3 17.13 7.3 - - Transportation and material moving................................ 13.33 6.4 13.14 8.5 13.90 5.2 Truck drivers............................................... 13.96 8.4 14.04 11.7 - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.60 7.0 11.60 7.0 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.26 3.9 10.04 4.6 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 9.07 9.9 9.07 9.9 - - Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 10.09 4.6 10.09 4.6 - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 10.29 12.5 10.29 12.5 - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.90 12.6 8.90 12.6 - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 10.01 6.3 10.01 6.3 - - Service............................................................. 8.41 8.3 6.83 8.4 10.88 10.0 Protective service............................................ 12.08 10.5 - - 13.69 7.8 Food service.................................................. 7.30 19.2 5.15 12.5 9.79 2.0 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 2.90 9.8 2.85 8.0 - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... $2.50 12.2 $2.43 9.3 - - Other food service........................................... 9.51 3.8 8.81 9.1 - - Cooks....................................................... 9.34 5.3 9.12 8.1 - - Health service................................................ 8.40 5.0 8.06 5.5 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 8.34 5.2 7.95 5.5 - - Cleaning and building service................................. 6.95 8.0 6.72 7.4 - - Maids and housemen.......................................... 6.52 2.1 6.43 2.4 - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 6.87 8.1 6.60 6.6 - - Personal service.............................................. 7.30 10.7 - - - - 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, Huntsville, AL, June 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................................................................... $20.12 2.5 $20.30 2.9 $19.44 5.6 All excluding sales............................................... 20.51 2.6 20.78 3.0 19.55 5.6 White collar........................................................ 23.87 2.7 24.47 3.0 22.21 7.5 White collar excluding sales.................................... 25.09 2.6 26.16 2.4 22.44 7.7 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 27.71 4.3 29.45 3.5 24.03 10.7 Professional specialty.......................................... 29.84 5.2 32.14 2.5 25.35 11.6 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 33.54 4.6 33.86 4.5 - - Aerospace engineers......................................... 34.07 6.0 34.07 6.0 - - Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 32.67 3.6 33.21 2.8 - - Industrial engineers........................................ 32.30 6.7 32.30 6.7 - - Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 33.58 4.4 33.58 4.4 - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 32.86 5.2 32.94 5.3 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 32.76 4.9 32.83 5.0 - - Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - Health related................................................ 30.94 10.3 22.94 7.6 - - Registered nurses........................................... 28.24 12.3 - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 24.82 3.3 15.83 23.1 - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 15.29 24.2 22.24 10.3 - - Technical....................................................... 19.40 3.0 20.12 2.5 - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 18.18 17.0 17.98 20.2 - - Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 23.13 4.7 23.13 4.7 - - Drafters.................................................... 20.93 7.4 20.93 7.4 - - Computer programmers........................................ 21.97 16.9 - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.30 2.6 33.86 3.0 31.28 6.8 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 37.88 3.3 40.45 4.0 32.34 6.6 Administrators, education and related fields................ 37.72 3.8 - - - - Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 41.55 4.1 41.55 4.2 - - Management related............................................ 26.59 3.0 26.79 3.2 - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 28.57 11.8 30.17 13.8 - - Management related, n.e.c................................... 21.50 9.1 21.50 9.1 - - Sales............................................................. 13.69 8.2 13.75 8.6 - - Supervisors, sales.......................................... 15.20 10.5 15.20 10.5 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 12.53 7.1 12.12 8.1 - - Cashiers.................................................... 8.69 9.0 8.43 9.3 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.98 5.1 13.14 6.6 12.53 5.7 Secretaries................................................. 15.46 11.1 16.38 16.7 - - Receptionists............................................... 9.68 11.0 9.68 11.0 - - Order clerks................................................ $13.36 6.3 $13.36 6.3 - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 13.71 6.7 13.45 11.7 - - Production coordinators..................................... 18.04 16.4 - - - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 13.08 5.2 13.08 5.2 - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 12.29 12.6 12.29 12.6 - - General office clerks....................................... 10.29 3.7 10.61 6.0 - - Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 17.18 24.9 17.18 24.9 - - Blue collar......................................................... 17.22 3.5 17.30 3.7 $16.27 8.4 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.09 3.6 19.11 3.9 19.02 9.8 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 23.32 1.1 23.32 1.1 - - Machinery maintenance....................................... 15.08 9.4 15.08 9.4 - - Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 16.38 11.1 - - - - Supervisors, production..................................... 20.29 4.0 19.07 1.7 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 18.10 4.1 18.10 4.1 - - Punching and stamping press operators....................... 12.23 4.8 12.23 4.8 - - Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 11.42 5.8 11.42 5.8 - - Molding and casting machine operators....................... 13.39 3.5 13.39 3.5 - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 9.02 5.0 9.02 5.0 - - Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 16.42 5.9 16.42 5.9 - - Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 19.90 7.2 19.90 7.2 - - Assemblers.................................................. 19.42 1.8 19.42 1.8 - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 17.13 7.3 17.13 7.3 - - Transportation and material moving................................ 13.33 6.5 13.18 8.5 - - Truck drivers............................................... 13.96 8.4 14.04 11.7 - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.60 7.0 11.60 7.0 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.57 3.6 10.38 4.2 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 10.64 6.6 10.64 6.6 - - Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 10.09 4.6 10.09 4.6 - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 10.50 12.9 10.50 12.9 - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 10.21 5.9 10.21 5.9 - - Service............................................................. 8.99 9.5 7.06 10.6 11.49 8.1 Protective service............................................ 12.43 10.5 - - 13.69 7.8 Food service.................................................. 7.51 20.7 5.22 15.7 - - Other food service........................................... 9.71 2.3 9.16 7.1 - - Cooks....................................................... 9.34 5.3 9.12 8.1 - - Health service................................................ 8.42 5.0 8.07 5.5 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 8.36 5.2 7.96 5.5 - - Cleaning and building service................................. 7.89 5.3 7.55 4.2 - - Maids and housemen.......................................... 6.50 2.4 6.50 2.4 - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.13 5.7 7.65 3.3 - - 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, Huntsville, AL, June 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................................................................... $8.49 11.1 $8.54 12.7 $8.23 15.7 All excluding sales............................................... 8.76 16.3 8.89 19.8 8.24 16.7 White collar........................................................ 10.14 15.5 10.22 16.7 9.20 11.3 White collar excluding sales.................................... 14.06 27.3 14.94 30.1 - - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 22.40 37.5 25.15 38.9 - - Professional specialty.......................................... - - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - - - Technical....................................................... - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... - - - - - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... - - - - - - Sales............................................................. 7.99 5.6 7.98 5.8 - - Cashiers.................................................... 6.84 7.3 6.68 7.7 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 8.88 5.9 9.24 6.5 - - Blue collar......................................................... 7.80 14.5 6.47 3.0 - - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... - - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... - - - - - - Transportation and material moving................................ - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.34 5.7 6.34 5.7 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 5.92 4.4 5.92 4.4 - - Service............................................................. 6.25 5.7 6.21 7.4 6.37 2.2 Protective service............................................ - - - - - - Food service.................................................. 5.05 8.4 4.63 11.5 - - Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 4.48 12.1 4.28 13.3 - - Health service................................................ - - - - - - Cleaning and building service................................. 6.00 6.4 - - - - 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, Huntsville, AL, June 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................................................................... $796 2.5 39.6 $808 3.0 39.8 $752 4.0 38.7 All excluding sales............................................... 812 2.6 39.6 828 3.1 39.8 756 4.1 38.7 White collar........................................................ 952 2.6 39.9 983 2.9 40.2 868 6.3 39.1 White collar excluding sales.................................... 1,000 2.5 39.9 1,052 2.4 40.2 876 6.5 39.0 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 1,099 4.8 39.7 1,186 3.5 40.3 924 9.8 38.5 Professional specialty.......................................... 1,180 6.1 39.6 1,297 2.4 40.4 965 10.8 38.1 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 1,363 4.8 40.6 1,375 4.7 40.6 - - - Aerospace engineers......................................... 1,365 6.0 40.1 1,365 6.0 40.1 - - - Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 1,419 2.6 43.4 1,441 1.7 43.4 - - - Industrial engineers........................................ 1,292 6.7 40.0 1,292 6.7 40.0 - - - Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 1,343 4.4 40.0 1,343 4.4 40.0 - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 1,323 5.0 40.3 1,326 5.1 40.3 - - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 1,319 4.7 40.3 1,322 4.8 40.3 - - - Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - - - - Health related................................................ 1,229 10.4 39.7 908 8.2 39.6 - - - Registered nurses........................................... 1,119 12.4 39.6 - - - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 933 2.9 37.6 631 23.0 39.9 - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 612 24.2 40.0 889 10.3 40.0 - - - Technical....................................................... 779 3.3 40.1 804 2.5 39.9 - - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 727 17.0 40.0 719 20.2 40.0 - - - Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 925 4.7 40.0 925 4.7 40.0 - - - Drafters.................................................... 837 7.4 40.0 837 7.4 40.0 - - - Computer programmers........................................ 879 16.9 40.0 - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 1,345 2.7 40.4 1,370 3.1 40.5 1,255 6.8 40.1 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 1,536 3.2 40.5 1,651 3.8 40.8 1,294 6.6 40.0 Administrators, education and related fields................ 1,503 4.1 39.9 - - - - - - Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 1,683 4.2 40.5 1,684 4.4 40.5 - - - Management related............................................ 1,068 3.2 40.2 1,075 3.4 40.1 - - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 1,149 11.8 40.2 1,215 13.8 40.3 - - - Management related, n.e.c................................... 859 9.1 40.0 859 9.1 40.0 - - - Sales............................................................. 546 9.0 39.9 548 9.5 39.9 - - - Supervisors, sales.......................................... 608 10.6 40.0 608 10.6 40.0 - - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 502 7.2 40.1 486 8.3 40.1 - - - Cashiers.................................................... 338 10.8 38.9 327 11.3 38.8 - - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ $518 5.0 39.9 $524 6.5 39.9 $501 5.7 40.0 Secretaries................................................. 618 11.1 40.0 654 16.7 39.9 - - - Receptionists............................................... 387 11.0 40.0 387 11.0 40.0 - - - Order clerks................................................ 535 6.3 40.0 535 6.3 40.0 - - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 543 6.7 39.6 528 11.8 39.2 - - - Production coordinators..................................... 722 16.4 40.0 - - - - - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 529 5.0 40.5 529 5.0 40.5 - - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 489 12.3 39.8 489 12.3 39.8 - - - General office clerks....................................... 412 3.7 40.0 425 6.0 40.0 - - - Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 687 24.9 40.0 687 24.9 40.0 - - - Blue collar......................................................... 685 3.6 39.8 688 3.9 39.8 654 8.6 40.2 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 763 3.7 40.0 763 3.9 39.9 766 10.3 40.3 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 928 1.5 39.8 928 1.5 39.8 - - - Machinery maintenance....................................... 603 9.4 40.0 603 9.4 40.0 - - - Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 634 13.0 38.7 - - - - - - Supervisors, production..................................... 817 3.9 40.2 771 2.7 40.4 - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 717 4.5 39.6 717 4.5 39.6 - - - Punching and stamping press operators....................... 489 4.8 40.0 489 4.8 40.0 - - - Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 457 5.8 40.0 457 5.8 40.0 - - - Molding and casting machine operators....................... 495 2.3 36.9 495 2.3 36.9 - - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 361 5.0 40.0 361 5.0 40.0 - - - Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 632 10.0 38.5 632 10.0 38.5 - - - Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 795 7.1 40.0 795 7.1 40.0 - - - Assemblers.................................................. 777 1.8 40.0 777 1.8 40.0 - - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 682 7.0 39.8 682 7.0 39.8 - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 540 8.0 40.5 536 10.4 40.7 - - - Truck drivers............................................... 571 10.8 40.9 580 14.8 41.3 - - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 462 7.0 39.8 462 7.0 39.8 - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 419 3.7 39.7 411 4.4 39.6 - - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 422 7.1 39.7 422 7.1 39.7 - - - Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 404 4.6 40.0 404 4.6 40.0 - - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 426 14.0 40.6 426 14.0 40.6 - - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 388 9.3 38.1 388 9.3 38.1 - - - Service............................................................. 334 10.2 37.1 267 11.7 37.8 417 15.0 36.3 Protective service............................................ 507 11.4 40.8 - - - 562 8.9 41.0 Food service.................................................. $258 16.3 34.4 $194 17.3 37.2 - - - Other food service........................................... 326 7.1 33.6 357 8.0 39.0 - - - Cooks....................................................... 367 5.9 39.3 356 8.8 39.0 - - - Health service................................................ 337 5.0 40.0 323 5.5 40.0 - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 334 5.2 40.0 318 5.5 40.0 - - - Cleaning and building service................................. 284 5.7 36.0 268 3.4 35.5 - - - Maids and housemen.......................................... 249 6.4 38.2 249 6.4 38.2 - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 284 7.5 34.9 260 3.6 34.0 - - - 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, Huntsville, AL, June 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................................................................... $40,438 2.5 2,010 $41,973 3.0 2,068 $35,355 4.0 1,819 All excluding sales............................................... 41,154 2.6 2,007 42,969 3.1 2,068 35,481 4.1 1,815 White collar........................................................ 47,864 2.6 2,005 51,003 2.9 2,085 40,198 6.3 1,810 White collar excluding sales.................................... 50,105 2.5 1,997 54,577 2.4 2,087 40,486 6.5 1,804 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 53,588 4.8 1,934 61,568 3.5 2,090 40,172 9.8 1,672 Professional specialty.......................................... 56,653 6.1 1,898 67,309 2.4 2,094 40,692 10.8 1,605 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 70,853 4.8 2,112 71,492 4.7 2,111 - - - Aerospace engineers......................................... 70,983 6.0 2,083 70,983 6.0 2,083 - - - Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 73,809 2.6 2,259 74,911 1.7 2,255 - - - Industrial engineers........................................ 67,185 6.7 2,080 67,185 6.7 2,080 - - - Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 69,847 4.4 2,080 69,847 4.4 2,080 - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 68,782 5.0 2,093 68,957 5.1 2,094 - - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 68,571 4.7 2,093 68,743 4.8 2,094 - - - Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - - - - Health related................................................ 63,890 10.4 2,065 47,200 8.2 2,057 - - - Registered nurses........................................... 58,181 12.4 2,060 - - - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 37,629 2.9 1,516 30,976 23.0 1,957 - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 31,808 24.2 2,080 46,250 10.3 2,080 - - - Technical....................................................... 40,484 3.3 2,087 41,787 2.5 2,077 - - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 37,812 17.0 2,080 37,391 20.2 2,080 - - - Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 48,104 4.7 2,080 48,104 4.7 2,080 - - - Drafters.................................................... 43,537 7.4 2,080 43,537 7.4 2,080 - - - Computer programmers........................................ 45,693 16.9 2,080 - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 69,956 2.7 2,101 71,251 3.1 2,104 65,267 6.8 2,087 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 79,866 3.2 2,109 85,839 3.8 2,122 67,267 6.6 2,080 Administrators, education and related fields................ 78,180 4.1 2,073 - - - - - - Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 87,523 4.2 2,106 87,566 4.4 2,107 - - - Management related............................................ 55,537 3.2 2,089 55,877 3.4 2,086 - - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 59,752 11.8 2,091 63,191 13.8 2,095 - - - Management related, n.e.c................................... 44,665 9.1 2,078 44,665 9.1 2,078 - - - Sales............................................................. 28,386 9.0 2,073 28,502 9.5 2,073 - - - Supervisors, sales.......................................... 31,639 10.6 2,081 31,639 10.6 2,081 - - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 26,123 7.2 2,084 25,284 8.3 2,086 - - - Cashiers.................................................... 17,594 10.8 2,024 16,996 11.3 2,016 - - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ $26,857 5.0 2,069 $27,140 6.5 2,065 $26,053 5.7 2,080 Secretaries................................................. 32,130 11.1 2,078 34,003 16.7 2,076 - - - Receptionists............................................... 20,141 11.0 2,080 20,141 11.0 2,080 - - - Order clerks................................................ 27,795 6.3 2,080 27,795 6.3 2,080 - - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 28,223 6.7 2,059 27,448 11.8 2,041 - - - Production coordinators..................................... 37,521 16.4 2,080 - - - - - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 27,517 5.0 2,104 27,517 5.0 2,104 - - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 25,404 12.3 2,068 25,404 12.3 2,068 - - - General office clerks....................................... 20,835 3.7 2,024 21,150 6.0 1,993 - - - Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 35,737 24.9 2,080 35,737 24.9 2,080 - - - Blue collar......................................................... 35,578 3.6 2,066 35,716 3.9 2,064 33,986 8.6 2,089 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 39,631 3.7 2,075 39,586 3.9 2,071 39,851 10.3 2,096 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 48,243 1.5 2,069 48,243 1.5 2,069 - - - Machinery maintenance....................................... 31,372 9.4 2,080 31,372 9.4 2,080 - - - Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 32,960 13.0 2,012 - - - - - - Supervisors, production..................................... 42,467 3.9 2,093 40,082 2.7 2,101 - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 37,270 4.5 2,060 37,270 4.5 2,060 - - - Punching and stamping press operators....................... 25,432 4.8 2,080 25,432 4.8 2,080 - - - Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 23,760 5.8 2,080 23,760 5.8 2,080 - - - Molding and casting machine operators....................... 25,714 2.3 1,920 25,714 2.3 1,920 - - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 18,758 5.0 2,080 18,758 5.0 2,080 - - - Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 32,863 10.0 2,001 32,863 10.0 2,001 - - - Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 41,351 7.1 2,078 41,351 7.1 2,078 - - - Assemblers.................................................. 40,394 1.8 2,080 40,394 1.8 2,080 - - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 35,474 7.0 2,071 35,474 7.0 2,071 - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 27,957 8.0 2,097 27,702 10.4 2,102 - - - Truck drivers............................................... 29,456 10.8 2,111 29,821 14.8 2,124 - - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 24,018 7.0 2,071 24,018 7.0 2,071 - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 21,716 3.7 2,055 21,282 4.4 2,050 - - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 21,954 7.1 2,063 21,954 7.1 2,063 - - - Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 20,997 4.6 2,080 20,997 4.6 2,080 - - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 22,165 14.0 2,111 22,165 14.0 2,111 - - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 20,202 9.3 1,979 20,202 9.3 1,979 - - - Service............................................................. 16,447 10.2 1,829 13,864 11.7 1,964 19,303 15.0 1,680 Protective service............................................ 26,351 11.4 2,119 - - - 29,202 8.9 2,133 Food service.................................................. $11,877 16.3 1,581 $10,105 17.3 1,935 - - - Other food service........................................... 14,338 7.1 1,476 18,585 8.0 2,029 - - - Cooks....................................................... 19,103 5.9 2,045 18,490 8.8 2,027 - - - Health service................................................ 17,510 5.0 2,080 16,794 5.5 2,080 - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 17,379 5.2 2,080 16,557 5.5 2,080 - - - Cleaning and building service................................. 14,713 5.7 1,865 13,896 3.4 1,841 - - - Maids and housemen.......................................... 12,923 6.4 1,987 12,923 6.4 1,987 - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 14,770 7.5 1,816 13,541 3.6 1,770 - - - 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, Huntsville, AL, June 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................................................................... $19.41 2.7 $19.52 3.1 $18.98 6.0 All excluding sales............................................... 20.01 2.8 20.26 3.3 19.11 6.0 White collar........................................................ 23.05 3.1 23.42 3.6 21.97 7.6 1....................................................... 8.03 5.0 7.82 4.0 - - 2....................................................... 9.17 2.3 9.17 2.7 - - 3....................................................... 9.96 2.5 9.65 2.9 10.95 8.6 4....................................................... 12.21 2.5 12.00 2.6 13.30 4.2 5....................................................... 16.16 6.4 16.72 6.3 - - 6....................................................... 16.47 10.6 19.27 4.3 - - 7....................................................... 23.19 5.7 21.61 6.8 24.46 3.9 8....................................................... 26.32 2.4 28.06 2.8 19.95 3.2 9....................................................... 30.48 2.7 30.14 2.8 32.25 7.1 10........................................................ 35.41 4.9 34.75 5.6 - - 11........................................................ 40.79 6.1 42.60 6.6 - - 12........................................................ 40.62 2.9 39.76 2.7 - - 13........................................................ 49.26 3.9 49.26 3.9 - - 14........................................................ 51.28 8.7 51.28 8.7 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.16 9.7 23.64 9.8 - - White collar excluding sales.................................... 24.82 2.4 25.83 2.3 22.26 7.7 1....................................................... 9.20 6.6 8.63 4.4 - - 2....................................................... 9.26 2.7 9.29 3.1 - - 3....................................................... 11.03 3.1 11.48 3.3 10.27 4.3 4....................................................... 12.66 2.7 12.45 3.1 13.30 4.2 5....................................................... 16.09 7.1 16.71 7.2 - - 6....................................................... 16.47 10.6 19.27 4.3 - - 7....................................................... 23.62 4.7 22.42 5.9 24.46 3.9 8....................................................... 26.18 3.0 27.94 3.8 19.95 3.2 9....................................................... 30.60 2.8 30.26 2.9 32.25 7.1 10........................................................ 35.49 4.9 34.84 5.6 - - 11........................................................ 41.02 6.8 43.01 7.5 - - 12........................................................ 40.73 3.2 39.88 3.1 - - 13........................................................ 49.26 3.9 49.26 3.9 - - 14........................................................ 51.28 8.7 51.28 8.7 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.03 9.7 24.63 9.7 - - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 27.62 4.2 29.37 3.5 23.90 10.4 Professional specialty.......................................... 29.90 5.2 32.22 2.3 25.33 11.5 6....................................................... 15.07 30.6 25.46 14.2 - - 7....................................................... 24.85 2.7 24.18 7.1 - - 8....................................................... 27.36 3.9 27.65 4.6 - - 9....................................................... 31.98 2.1 32.08 2.3 - - 10........................................................ 36.44 4.3 35.53 5.4 - - 11........................................................ 36.47 5.1 36.47 5.1 - - 12........................................................ 39.34 2.5 38.04 .3 - - 13........................................................ 46.63 3.1 46.63 3.1 - - 14........................................................ $45.24 1.3 $45.24 1.3 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.80 14.3 25.66 14.5 - - Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 33.54 4.6 33.86 4.5 - - 7....................................................... 27.59 8.8 - - - - 8....................................................... 30.19 5.8 30.19 5.8 - - 9....................................................... 33.13 8.4 33.13 8.4 - - 10........................................................ 34.47 6.1 34.47 6.1 - - 11........................................................ 32.32 1.9 32.32 1.9 - - 12........................................................ 37.83 1.0 37.83 1.0 - - Aerospace engineers......................................... 34.07 6.0 34.07 6.0 - - Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 32.67 3.6 33.21 2.8 - - Industrial engineers........................................ 32.30 6.7 32.30 6.7 - - Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 33.58 4.4 33.58 4.4 - - 11........................................................ 30.31 4.4 30.31 4.4 - - 12........................................................ 38.49 3.4 38.49 3.4 - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 33.17 5.4 33.25 5.5 - - 7....................................................... 26.06 3.1 26.06 3.1 - - 8....................................................... 26.80 2.6 - - - - 9....................................................... 32.25 2.5 32.25 2.5 - - 10........................................................ 36.66 6.4 36.66 6.4 - - 11........................................................ 40.12 5.5 40.12 5.5 - - 12........................................................ 38.42 2.5 38.42 2.5 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 33.07 5.1 33.15 5.2 - - 7....................................................... 26.06 3.1 26.06 3.1 - - 8....................................................... 26.80 2.6 - - - - 9....................................................... 32.55 2.1 32.55 2.1 - - 10........................................................ 36.66 6.4 36.66 6.4 - - 11........................................................ 40.12 5.5 40.12 5.5 - - 12........................................................ 38.42 2.5 38.42 2.5 - - Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - Health related................................................ 30.94 10.3 22.94 7.6 - - Registered nurses........................................... 28.24 12.3 - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 24.81 3.3 15.79 23.0 - - 7....................................................... 24.85 3.2 - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 15.11 22.5 21.26 9.5 - - Technical....................................................... 19.06 2.8 19.78 2.9 $17.04 2.0 4....................................................... 12.92 3.4 13.01 3.5 - - 5....................................................... 17.71 9.0 17.71 9.0 - - 6....................................................... 15.63 1.9 - - - - 7....................................................... 21.44 4.1 - - - - 8....................................................... 23.13 8.7 26.70 6.8 - - Licensed practical nurses................................... 12.66 3.9 12.40 5.3 - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... $18.18 17.0 $17.98 20.2 - - Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 23.13 4.7 23.13 4.7 - - Drafters.................................................... 20.93 7.4 20.93 7.4 - - Computer programmers........................................ 21.97 16.9 - - - - 8....................................................... 22.06 17.3 - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.20 2.6 33.72 2.9 $31.28 6.8 7....................................................... 19.51 4.7 19.65 5.8 - - 9....................................................... 29.08 7.2 27.30 6.3 - - 10........................................................ 31.28 7.4 32.07 7.6 - - 11........................................................ 46.13 13.1 56.33 11.9 - - 12........................................................ 44.54 7.4 47.68 10.8 - - 13........................................................ 51.23 5.1 51.23 5.1 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 28.54 12.4 28.54 12.4 - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 37.65 3.3 40.09 4.0 32.34 6.6 7....................................................... 19.21 6.8 - - - - 8....................................................... 30.85 10.0 - - - - 9....................................................... 31.49 7.9 29.36 7.9 - - 11........................................................ 47.65 15.4 - - - - 12........................................................ 44.89 7.1 48.46 9.7 - - 13........................................................ 52.09 8.0 52.09 8.0 - - Administrators, education and related fields................ 37.72 3.8 - - - - Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 41.55 4.1 41.55 4.2 - - 12........................................................ 50.43 9.1 - - - - 13........................................................ 51.84 8.0 51.84 8.0 - - Management related............................................ 26.59 3.0 26.79 3.2 - - 9....................................................... 24.92 3.2 24.64 3.7 - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 28.57 11.8 30.17 13.8 - - Management related, n.e.c................................... 21.50 9.1 21.50 9.1 - - Sales............................................................. 12.11 7.2 12.12 7.5 - - 1....................................................... 7.30 6.0 7.35 6.2 - - 3....................................................... 9.08 6.0 8.60 6.9 - - 4....................................................... 11.31 4.1 11.31 4.1 - - Supervisors, sales.......................................... 15.20 10.5 15.20 10.5 - - Sales workers, apparel...................................... 9.56 2.5 9.56 2.5 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 11.94 6.0 11.41 5.6 - - Cashiers.................................................... 7.91 7.5 7.69 7.8 - - 1....................................................... 6.75 11.4 - - - - 2....................................................... 8.67 7.6 - - - - 3....................................................... 8.18 10.4 7.85 10.4 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.75 5.1 12.89 6.5 12.34 6.0 1....................................................... 9.17 7.0 8.56 4.3 - - 2....................................................... 9.25 2.9 9.28 3.3 - - 3....................................................... 11.03 3.1 11.48 3.3 10.27 4.3 4....................................................... $12.64 3.3 $12.33 3.9 $13.40 4.0 5....................................................... 15.09 12.8 15.65 14.1 - - 6....................................................... 18.79 11.9 18.79 11.9 - - 7....................................................... 18.10 7.6 18.55 8.0 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 13.11 14.5 13.11 14.5 - - Secretaries................................................. 15.36 11.0 16.15 16.4 - - 4....................................................... 14.05 8.2 13.31 11.3 - - Receptionists............................................... 9.56 10.3 9.56 10.3 - - 3....................................................... 10.55 11.9 10.55 11.9 - - Order clerks................................................ 13.36 6.3 13.36 6.3 - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 13.71 6.7 13.45 11.7 - - 4....................................................... 13.20 4.5 12.06 7.7 - - Production coordinators..................................... 18.04 16.4 - - - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 13.08 5.2 13.08 5.2 - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 12.29 12.6 12.29 12.6 - - Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c.................................................... 8.79 9.2 8.79 9.2 - - General office clerks....................................... 10.17 3.7 10.39 5.8 - - 2....................................................... 9.60 3.1 - - - - Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 16.63 23.5 16.63 23.5 - - Blue collar......................................................... 17.05 3.5 17.13 3.7 16.19 8.4 1....................................................... 8.39 4.9 8.02 4.9 - - 2....................................................... 9.48 3.4 9.48 3.4 - - 3....................................................... 19.39 5.6 19.59 5.6 - - 4....................................................... 14.16 5.5 14.25 5.8 - - 5....................................................... 16.93 3.1 17.35 3.3 - - 6....................................................... 16.35 1.0 - - - - 7....................................................... 21.55 1.9 21.71 2.0 20.47 7.8 Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.35 5.5 20.35 5.5 - - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.82 3.7 18.78 4.0 19.02 9.8 2....................................................... 9.45 .6 9.45 .6 - - 3....................................................... 8.73 5.0 8.73 5.0 - - 4....................................................... 10.86 3.0 10.85 3.4 - - 5....................................................... 15.26 4.0 15.65 4.3 - - 6....................................................... 15.72 6.1 16.78 4.0 - - 7....................................................... 22.84 4.8 23.38 5.4 20.47 7.8 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 23.32 1.1 23.32 1.1 - - 7....................................................... 25.21 3.0 25.21 3.0 - - Machinery maintenance....................................... 15.08 9.4 15.08 9.4 - - Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 16.38 11.1 - - - - Supervisors, production..................................... 20.29 4.0 19.07 1.7 - - 7....................................................... 20.83 4.7 18.69 9.2 - - Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 8.13 2.6 8.13 2.6 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... $18.08 4.1 $18.08 4.1 - - 1....................................................... 7.91 9.8 7.91 9.8 - - 2....................................................... 8.92 3.5 8.92 3.5 - - 3....................................................... 21.18 5.6 21.18 5.6 - - 4....................................................... 15.35 8.0 15.35 8.0 - - 5....................................................... 18.78 3.0 18.78 3.0 - - 7....................................................... 18.77 12.0 18.77 12.0 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.56 6.0 20.56 6.0 - - Punching and stamping press operators....................... 12.23 4.8 12.23 4.8 - - Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 11.42 5.8 11.42 5.8 - - Molding and casting machine operators....................... 13.39 3.5 13.39 3.5 - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 9.02 5.0 9.02 5.0 - - Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 16.42 5.9 16.42 5.9 - - Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 19.87 7.2 19.87 7.2 - - 5....................................................... 20.49 8.6 20.49 8.6 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.14 9.3 21.14 9.3 - - Assemblers.................................................. 19.42 1.8 19.42 1.8 - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 17.13 7.3 17.13 7.3 - - Transportation and material moving................................ 13.33 6.4 13.14 8.5 $13.90 5.2 3....................................................... 9.78 1.3 - - - - 4....................................................... 15.65 8.1 - - - - Truck drivers............................................... 13.96 8.4 14.04 11.7 - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.60 7.0 11.60 7.0 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.26 3.9 10.04 4.6 - - 1....................................................... 8.60 5.6 8.32 6.9 - - 2....................................................... 8.98 2.3 8.98 2.3 - - 3....................................................... 11.63 4.8 11.08 3.8 - - 4....................................................... 10.69 6.5 10.69 6.5 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 9.07 9.9 9.07 9.9 - - 1....................................................... 8.60 13.4 8.60 13.4 - - Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 10.09 4.6 10.09 4.6 - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 10.29 12.5 10.29 12.5 - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.90 12.6 8.90 12.6 - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 10.01 6.3 10.01 6.3 - - Service............................................................. 8.41 8.3 6.83 8.4 10.88 10.0 1....................................................... 6.69 2.0 6.66 1.5 - - 2....................................................... 9.09 5.2 7.48 3.4 - - 3....................................................... 6.39 24.4 5.77 29.1 - - 4....................................................... 10.22 7.5 9.42 3.5 - - Protective service............................................ 12.08 10.5 - - 13.69 7.8 Food service.................................................. 7.30 19.2 5.15 12.5 9.79 2.0 1....................................................... 6.38 7.0 6.38 7.0 - - 2....................................................... $9.05 11.1 $6.23 12.0 - - 3....................................................... 4.18 44.0 - - - - Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 2.90 9.8 2.85 8.0 - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.50 12.2 2.43 9.3 - - Other food service........................................... 9.51 3.8 8.81 9.1 - - 1....................................................... 6.89 13.2 6.89 13.2 - - Cooks....................................................... 9.34 5.3 9.12 8.1 - - Health service................................................ 8.40 5.0 8.06 5.5 - - 3....................................................... 8.18 5.2 8.24 5.7 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 8.34 5.2 7.95 5.5 - - 3....................................................... 8.06 5.2 8.10 5.8 - - Cleaning and building service................................. 6.95 8.0 6.72 7.4 - - 1....................................................... 6.31 5.3 6.16 4.7 - - Maids and housemen.......................................... 6.52 2.1 6.43 2.4 - - 1....................................................... 6.50 2.7 - - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 6.87 8.1 6.60 6.6 - - 1....................................................... 6.27 6.4 6.11 5.5 - - Personal service.............................................. $7.30 10.7 - - - - 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, Huntsville, AL, June 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................................................................... $20.12 2.5 $20.30 2.9 $19.44 5.6 All excluding sales............................................... 20.51 2.6 20.78 3.0 19.55 5.6 White collar........................................................ 23.87 2.7 24.47 3.0 22.21 7.5 1....................................................... 9.33 5.5 8.85 3.3 - - 2....................................................... 9.35 2.8 9.28 3.1 - - 3....................................................... 10.59 3.9 10.43 4.5 10.95 8.6 4....................................................... 12.43 2.4 12.20 2.6 13.54 4.5 5....................................................... 16.29 6.6 16.91 6.5 - - 6....................................................... 16.50 10.7 19.36 4.4 - - 7....................................................... 23.24 5.7 21.70 7.0 24.46 3.9 8....................................................... 26.32 2.4 28.06 2.8 19.95 3.2 9....................................................... 30.52 2.7 30.14 2.8 - - 10........................................................ 34.76 5.0 33.91 6.0 - - 11........................................................ 40.89 6.5 42.78 7.1 - - 12........................................................ 40.62 2.9 39.76 2.7 - - 13........................................................ 49.26 3.9 49.26 3.9 - - 14........................................................ 51.28 8.7 51.28 8.7 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.48 9.4 24.01 9.5 - - White collar excluding sales.................................... 25.09 2.6 26.16 2.4 22.44 7.7 1....................................................... 9.57 6.1 8.94 3.0 - - 2....................................................... 9.42 3.2 9.35 3.5 - - 3....................................................... 11.12 3.1 11.65 3.0 10.27 4.3 4....................................................... 12.86 2.9 12.65 3.3 13.54 4.5 5....................................................... 16.24 7.3 16.93 7.5 - - 6....................................................... 16.50 10.7 19.36 4.4 - - 7....................................................... 23.68 4.6 22.54 5.8 24.46 3.9 8....................................................... 26.18 3.0 27.94 3.8 19.95 3.2 9....................................................... 30.63 2.8 30.26 2.9 - - 10........................................................ 34.83 5.0 33.99 6.0 - - 11........................................................ 41.13 7.3 43.21 8.1 - - 12........................................................ 40.73 3.2 39.88 3.1 - - 13........................................................ 49.26 3.9 49.26 3.9 - - 14........................................................ 51.28 8.7 51.28 8.7 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.39 9.4 25.05 9.3 - - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 27.71 4.3 29.45 3.5 24.03 10.7 Professional specialty.......................................... 29.84 5.2 32.14 2.5 25.35 11.6 6....................................................... 15.07 30.6 25.46 14.2 - - 7....................................................... 24.85 2.7 24.19 7.1 - - 8....................................................... 27.36 3.9 27.65 4.6 - - 9....................................................... 32.04 2.1 32.08 2.3 - - 10........................................................ 35.66 4.9 34.49 6.2 - - 11........................................................ 36.46 5.3 36.46 5.3 - - 12........................................................ 39.34 2.5 38.04 .3 - - 13........................................................ 46.63 3.1 46.63 3.1 - - 14........................................................ $45.24 1.3 $45.24 1.3 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.80 14.3 25.66 14.5 - - Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 33.54 4.6 33.86 4.5 - - 7....................................................... 27.59 8.8 - - - - 8....................................................... 30.19 5.8 30.19 5.8 - - 9....................................................... 33.13 8.4 33.13 8.4 - - 10........................................................ 34.47 6.1 34.47 6.1 - - 11........................................................ 32.32 1.9 32.32 1.9 - - 12........................................................ 37.83 1.0 37.83 1.0 - - Aerospace engineers......................................... 34.07 6.0 34.07 6.0 - - Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 32.67 3.6 33.21 2.8 - - Industrial engineers........................................ 32.30 6.7 32.30 6.7 - - Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 33.58 4.4 33.58 4.4 - - 11........................................................ 30.31 4.4 30.31 4.4 - - 12........................................................ 38.49 3.4 38.49 3.4 - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 32.86 5.2 32.94 5.3 - - 7....................................................... 26.06 3.1 26.06 3.1 - - 8....................................................... 26.80 2.6 - - - - 9....................................................... 32.25 2.5 32.25 2.5 - - 10........................................................ 34.94 7.1 34.94 7.1 - - 11........................................................ 40.45 6.1 40.45 6.1 - - 12........................................................ 38.42 2.5 38.42 2.5 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 32.76 4.9 32.83 5.0 - - 7....................................................... 26.06 3.1 26.06 3.1 - - 8....................................................... 26.80 2.6 - - - - 9....................................................... 32.55 2.1 32.55 2.1 - - 10........................................................ 34.94 7.1 34.94 7.1 - - 11........................................................ 40.45 6.1 40.45 6.1 - - 12........................................................ 38.42 2.5 38.42 2.5 - - Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - Health related................................................ 30.94 10.3 22.94 7.6 - - Registered nurses........................................... 28.24 12.3 - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 24.82 3.3 15.83 23.1 - - 7....................................................... 24.85 3.2 - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 15.29 24.2 22.24 10.3 - - Technical....................................................... 19.40 3.0 20.12 2.5 - - 4....................................................... 13.26 1.9 13.26 1.9 - - 5....................................................... 18.45 9.0 18.45 9.0 - - 6....................................................... 15.71 2.0 - - - - 7....................................................... 21.44 4.1 - - - - 8....................................................... 23.13 8.7 26.70 6.8 - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 18.18 17.0 17.98 20.2 - - Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. $23.13 4.7 $23.13 4.7 - - Drafters.................................................... 20.93 7.4 20.93 7.4 - - Computer programmers........................................ 21.97 16.9 - - - - 8....................................................... 22.06 17.3 - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.30 2.6 33.86 3.0 $31.28 6.8 7....................................................... 19.85 4.2 20.12 5.1 - - 9....................................................... 29.08 7.2 27.30 6.3 - - 10........................................................ 31.28 7.4 32.07 7.6 - - 11........................................................ 46.13 13.1 56.33 11.9 - - 12........................................................ 44.54 7.4 47.68 10.8 - - 13........................................................ 51.23 5.1 51.23 5.1 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 28.54 12.4 28.54 12.4 - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 37.88 3.3 40.45 4.0 32.34 6.6 8....................................................... 30.85 10.0 - - - - 9....................................................... 31.49 7.9 29.36 7.9 - - 11........................................................ 47.65 15.4 - - - - 12........................................................ 44.89 7.1 48.46 9.7 - - 13........................................................ 52.09 8.0 52.09 8.0 - - Administrators, education and related fields................ 37.72 3.8 - - - - Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 41.55 4.1 41.55 4.2 - - 12........................................................ 50.43 9.1 - - - - 13........................................................ 51.84 8.0 51.84 8.0 - - Management related............................................ 26.59 3.0 26.79 3.2 - - 9....................................................... 24.92 3.2 24.64 3.7 - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 28.57 11.8 30.17 13.8 - - Management related, n.e.c................................... 21.50 9.1 21.50 9.1 - - Sales............................................................. 13.69 8.2 13.75 8.6 - - 3....................................................... 9.89 8.4 9.19 10.3 - - 4....................................................... 11.47 4.7 11.47 4.7 - - Supervisors, sales.......................................... 15.20 10.5 15.20 10.5 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 12.53 7.1 12.12 8.1 - - Cashiers.................................................... 8.69 9.0 8.43 9.3 - - 3....................................................... 8.56 11.1 - - - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.98 5.1 13.14 6.6 12.53 5.7 1....................................................... 9.56 6.5 - - - - 2....................................................... 9.42 3.3 9.35 3.8 - - 3....................................................... 11.12 3.1 11.65 3.0 10.27 4.3 4....................................................... 12.77 3.6 12.45 4.3 13.54 4.5 5....................................................... 15.17 12.9 15.78 14.2 - - 6....................................................... 18.79 11.9 18.79 11.9 - - 7....................................................... 18.10 7.6 18.55 8.0 - - Secretaries................................................. 15.46 11.1 16.38 16.7 - - 4....................................................... 14.40 8.8 - - - - Receptionists............................................... $9.68 11.0 $9.68 11.0 - - Order clerks................................................ 13.36 6.3 13.36 6.3 - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 13.71 6.7 13.45 11.7 - - 4....................................................... 13.20 4.5 12.06 7.7 - - Production coordinators..................................... 18.04 16.4 - - - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 13.08 5.2 13.08 5.2 - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 12.29 12.6 12.29 12.6 - - General office clerks....................................... 10.29 3.7 10.61 6.0 - - 2....................................................... 9.60 3.1 - - - - Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 17.18 24.9 17.18 24.9 - - Blue collar......................................................... 17.22 3.5 17.30 3.7 $16.27 8.4 1....................................................... 8.71 5.3 8.32 5.5 - - 2....................................................... 9.49 3.4 9.49 3.4 - - 3....................................................... 19.43 5.6 19.62 5.5 - - 4....................................................... 14.13 5.7 14.25 5.8 - - 5....................................................... 16.93 3.1 17.35 3.3 - - 6....................................................... 16.35 1.0 - - - - 7....................................................... 21.55 1.9 21.71 2.0 20.47 7.8 Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.53 5.1 20.53 5.1 - - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.09 3.6 19.11 3.9 19.02 9.8 2....................................................... 9.45 .6 9.45 .6 - - 3....................................................... 8.73 5.0 8.73 5.0 - - 4....................................................... 10.86 3.0 10.85 3.4 - - 5....................................................... 15.26 4.0 15.65 4.3 - - 6....................................................... 15.72 6.1 16.78 4.0 - - 7....................................................... 22.84 4.8 23.38 5.4 20.47 7.8 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 23.32 1.1 23.32 1.1 - - 7....................................................... 25.21 3.0 25.21 3.0 - - Machinery maintenance....................................... 15.08 9.4 15.08 9.4 - - Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 16.38 11.1 - - - - Supervisors, production..................................... 20.29 4.0 19.07 1.7 - - 7....................................................... 20.83 4.7 18.69 9.2 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 18.10 4.1 18.10 4.1 - - 1....................................................... 7.91 9.8 7.91 9.8 - - 2....................................................... 8.94 3.6 8.94 3.6 - - 3....................................................... 21.18 5.6 21.18 5.6 - - 4....................................................... 15.35 8.0 15.35 8.0 - - 5....................................................... 18.78 3.0 18.78 3.0 - - 7....................................................... 18.77 12.0 18.77 12.0 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.79 5.3 20.79 5.3 - - Punching and stamping press operators....................... 12.23 4.8 12.23 4.8 - - Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 11.42 5.8 11.42 5.8 - - Molding and casting machine operators....................... 13.39 3.5 13.39 3.5 - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... $9.02 5.0 $9.02 5.0 - - Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 16.42 5.9 16.42 5.9 - - Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 19.90 7.2 19.90 7.2 - - 5....................................................... 20.49 8.6 20.49 8.6 - - Assemblers.................................................. 19.42 1.8 19.42 1.8 - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 17.13 7.3 17.13 7.3 - - Transportation and material moving................................ 13.33 6.5 13.18 8.5 - - Truck drivers............................................... 13.96 8.4 14.04 11.7 - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.60 7.0 11.60 7.0 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.57 3.6 10.38 4.2 - - 1....................................................... 9.00 5.6 8.77 7.2 - - 2....................................................... 8.97 2.3 8.97 2.3 - - 3....................................................... 11.77 4.8 11.25 3.3 - - 4....................................................... 10.69 6.5 10.69 6.5 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 10.64 6.6 10.64 6.6 - - 1....................................................... 11.19 5.7 11.19 5.7 - - Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 10.09 4.6 10.09 4.6 - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 10.50 12.9 10.50 12.9 - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 10.21 5.9 10.21 5.9 - - Service............................................................. 8.99 9.5 7.06 10.6 $11.49 8.1 1....................................................... 7.66 4.7 7.56 5.4 - - 2....................................................... 9.41 4.7 7.79 4.5 - - 3....................................................... 6.23 23.9 5.51 27.4 - - 4....................................................... 10.22 7.5 9.42 3.5 - - Protective service............................................ 12.43 10.5 - - 13.69 7.8 Food service.................................................. 7.51 20.7 5.22 15.7 - - Other food service........................................... 9.71 2.3 9.16 7.1 - - Cooks....................................................... 9.34 5.3 9.12 8.1 - - Health service................................................ 8.42 5.0 8.07 5.5 - - 3....................................................... 8.20 5.3 8.26 5.8 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 8.36 5.2 7.96 5.5 - - 3....................................................... 8.08 5.2 - - - - Cleaning and building service................................. 7.89 5.3 7.55 4.2 - - 1....................................................... 7.06 4.0 6.81 2.5 - - Maids and housemen.......................................... 6.50 2.4 6.50 2.4 - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.13 5.7 7.65 3.3 - - 1....................................................... 7.43 4.8 7.06 3.5 - - 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, Huntsville, AL, June 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................................................................... $8.49 11.1 $8.54 12.7 $8.23 15.7 All excluding sales............................................... 8.76 16.3 8.89 19.8 8.24 16.7 White collar........................................................ 10.14 15.5 10.22 16.7 9.20 11.3 1....................................................... 7.05 5.5 7.09 5.6 - - 2....................................................... 8.02 3.0 8.37 2.4 - - 3....................................................... 7.88 3.6 7.88 3.6 - - 4....................................................... 10.23 4.0 10.04 4.6 - - White collar excluding sales.................................... 14.06 27.3 14.94 30.1 - - 2....................................................... 8.02 2.9 8.76 5.0 - - 4....................................................... 10.21 7.5 9.79 9.3 - - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 22.40 37.5 25.15 38.9 - - Professional specialty.......................................... - - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - - - Technical....................................................... - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... - - - - - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... - - - - - - Sales............................................................. 7.99 5.6 7.98 5.8 - - 1....................................................... 7.01 5.8 7.06 6.0 - - 3....................................................... 7.89 3.8 7.89 3.8 - - Cashiers.................................................... 6.84 7.3 6.68 7.7 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 8.88 5.9 9.24 6.5 - - 2....................................................... 8.02 2.9 8.76 5.0 - - Blue collar......................................................... 7.80 14.5 6.47 3.0 - - 1....................................................... 6.25 1.4 6.25 1.4 - - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... - - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... - - - - - - Transportation and material moving................................ - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.34 5.7 6.34 5.7 - - 1....................................................... 6.06 3.8 6.06 3.8 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 5.92 4.4 5.92 4.4 - - 1....................................................... 5.92 4.4 5.92 4.4 - - Service............................................................. $6.25 5.7 $6.21 7.4 $6.37 2.2 1....................................................... 5.97 2.9 5.85 2.9 - - 2....................................................... 6.22 15.8 - - - - Protective service............................................ - - - - - - Food service.................................................. 5.05 8.4 4.63 11.5 - - Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 4.48 12.1 4.28 13.3 - - Health service................................................ - - - - - - Cleaning and building service................................. 6.00 6.4 - - - - 1....................................................... 5.85 5.4 - - - - 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, Huntsville, AL, June 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....................................................... $20.12 $8.49 $21.96 $18.81 $19.33 $24.96 All excluding sales............................................. 20.51 8.76 22.02 19.48 19.93 - White collar........................................................ 23.87 10.14 24.80 22.99 22.94 28.87 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 25.09 14.06 25.91 24.78 24.63 - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 27.71 22.40 - 27.51 27.62 - Professional specialty.......................................... 29.84 - - 29.78 29.90 - Technical....................................................... 19.40 - - 18.47 19.06 - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.30 - - 33.29 32.26 - Sales............................................................. 13.69 7.99 - 11.97 11.11 19.42 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.98 8.88 19.21 12.42 12.75 - Blue collar......................................................... 17.22 7.80 21.74 12.64 17.07 - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.09 - 23.29 16.07 18.83 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 18.10 - 22.47 10.77 18.09 - Transportation and material moving................................ 13.33 - 15.49 12.92 13.35 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.57 6.34 11.03 9.96 10.26 - Service............................................................. 8.99 6.25 - 8.42 8.40 - 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....................................................... 2.5 11.1 2.6 3.3 3.1 38.1 All excluding sales............................................. 2.6 16.3 2.6 3.4 3.1 - White collar........................................................ 2.7 15.5 14.1 3.1 3.0 43.8 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 2.6 27.3 14.4 2.4 2.5 - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 4.3 37.5 - 4.2 4.2 - Professional specialty.......................................... 5.2 - - 5.2 5.2 - Technical....................................................... 3.0 - - 3.7 2.8 - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 2.6 - - 2.5 4.3 - Sales............................................................. 8.2 5.6 - 7.5 5.2 27.7 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 5.1 5.9 16.8 4.0 5.1 - Blue collar......................................................... 3.5 14.5 2.1 3.5 3.5 - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 3.6 - 3.9 5.1 3.7 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 4.1 - .6 3.4 4.1 - Transportation and material moving................................ 6.5 - 9.6 7.7 6.6 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 3.6 5.7 3.9 5.4 3.9 - Service............................................................. 9.5 5.7 - 8.4 8.4 - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. 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, Huntsville, AL, June 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....................................................... $19.52 $21.79 - - $22.17 $16.94 $16.65 - - $20.89 All excluding sales............................................. 20.26 21.76 - - 22.11 18.21 16.39 - - 20.80 White collar........................................................ 23.42 29.38 - - 29.68 20.09 16.27 - - 25.66 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 25.83 29.70 - - 29.85 23.11 15.81 - - 25.62 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 29.37 30.60 - - 30.60 28.64 - - - 29.03 Professional specialty.......................................... 32.22 33.37 - - 33.37 31.56 - - - 31.90 Technical....................................................... 19.78 22.29 - - 22.29 18.04 - - - 18.22 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.72 39.16 - - 39.16 25.40 - - - 27.72 Sales............................................................. 12.12 23.15 - - 26.04 10.87 - - - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.89 15.00 - - 15.15 11.79 - - - 11.54 Blue collar......................................................... 17.13 17.93 - - 18.25 12.78 - - - 13.05 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.78 19.94 - - 20.77 15.23 - - - 16.30 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 18.08 18.33 - - 18.34 9.19 - - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 13.14 12.04 - - 13.04 14.03 - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.04 10.43 - - 10.58 9.51 - - - 9.40 Service............................................................. 6.83 - - - - 6.76 - - - 7.19 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....................................................... 3.1 1.4 - - 1.3 7.5 4.2 - - 9.2 All excluding sales............................................. 3.3 1.8 - - 1.7 8.0 4.8 - - 9.1 White collar........................................................ 3.6 2.3 - - 2.3 6.4 5.0 - - 4.0 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 2.3 1.9 - - 1.9 4.9 6.3 - - 4.0 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 3.5 1.1 - - 1.1 6.1 - - - 6.1 Professional specialty.......................................... 2.3 .4 - - .4 4.1 - - - 3.9 Technical....................................................... 2.9 2.7 - - 2.7 5.1 - - - 5.4 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 2.9 4.3 - - 4.3 5.1 - - - 3.0 Sales............................................................. 7.5 22.4 - - 18.1 5.7 - - - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 6.5 14.2 - - 14.6 5.2 - - - 8.3 Blue collar......................................................... 3.7 3.9 - - 3.9 4.8 - - - 1.0 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 4.0 3.8 - - 3.3 3.2 - - - 2.2 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 4.1 3.8 - - 3.8 4.1 - - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 8.5 8.5 - - 9.9 10.8 - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.6 5.5 - - 6.2 8.5 - - - 5.0 Service............................................................. 8.4 - - - - 8.7 - - - 3.6 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 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, Huntsville, AL, June 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....................................................... $19.52 $13.54 $20.73 $16.76 $24.81 All excluding sales............................................. 20.26 13.94 21.56 17.85 24.73 White collar........................................................ 23.42 19.28 24.07 20.36 29.04 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 25.83 21.53 26.52 23.99 28.97 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 29.37 27.02 29.61 27.85 31.31 Professional specialty.......................................... 32.22 31.69 32.27 30.90 33.51 Technical....................................................... 19.78 11.80 20.60 19.02 22.57 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.72 31.34 34.18 32.11 35.49 Sales............................................................. 12.12 8.21 12.70 11.59 32.18 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.89 11.07 13.37 12.12 15.07 Blue collar......................................................... 17.13 10.93 18.40 12.61 21.91 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.78 13.32 19.64 15.51 23.06 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 18.08 9.42 19.09 11.42 22.10 Transportation and material moving................................ 13.14 13.25 13.02 12.28 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.04 9.12 10.65 10.61 10.77 Service............................................................. 6.83 5.76 7.42 7.54 - 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....................................................... 3.1 13.7 3.6 7.7 2.5 All excluding sales............................................. 3.3 13.8 3.1 7.9 2.2 White collar........................................................ 3.6 14.4 4.7 8.0 4.7 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 2.3 13.3 2.9 6.1 4.4 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 3.5 19.3 2.6 5.7 1.7 Professional specialty.......................................... 2.3 21.7 1.1 3.5 1.8 Technical....................................................... 2.9 10.2 4.1 5.5 1.7 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 2.9 16.9 3.0 12.3 6.4 Sales............................................................. 7.5 11.2 9.2 5.6 11.3 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 6.5 11.9 7.6 4.3 15.0 Blue collar......................................................... 3.7 7.6 3.6 1.2 1.8 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 4.0 5.7 4.0 4.0 1.2 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 4.1 8.6 4.0 3.2 2.0 Transportation and material moving................................ 8.5 14.7 10.8 7.9 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.6 9.5 2.5 2.4 8.2 Service............................................................. 8.4 14.6 4.0 4.6 - 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, Huntsville, AL, June 2002 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $7.83 $10.03 $17.37 $25.18 $34.23 All excluding sales........................... 8.00 10.75 18.38 26.04 34.94 White collar.................................... 8.84 12.32 21.26 30.59 39.95 White collar excluding sales................ 9.97 14.33 23.59 32.40 40.87 Professional specialty and technical.......... 14.29 20.63 26.96 33.60 41.25 Professional specialty...................... 19.12 23.82 28.85 36.05 42.46 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 24.00 28.01 32.69 37.88 43.26 Aerospace engineers..................... 25.86 28.85 33.19 38.17 43.92 Electrical and electronic engineers..... 23.56 25.88 31.73 38.75 42.46 Industrial engineers.................... 25.79 30.29 32.08 35.77 38.25 Engineers, n.e.c........................ 23.14 28.00 33.17 38.34 42.79 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 22.50 26.44 32.45 39.35 44.62 Computer systems analysts and scientists 22.43 26.44 32.45 39.23 44.53 Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ 18.00 22.26 30.89 32.95 52.85 Registered nurses....................... 17.50 19.85 30.89 32.95 32.95 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... 19.82 22.23 25.19 27.26 30.55 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 9.59 9.59 9.59 20.63 27.75 Technical................................... 12.00 13.70 17.52 23.17 29.39 Licensed practical nurses............... 10.30 11.68 12.50 13.52 15.00 Electrical and electronic technicians... 10.48 13.51 17.22 21.96 30.04 Engineering technicians, n.e.c.......... 16.00 19.09 23.80 26.34 29.39 Drafters................................ 12.92 14.20 22.20 25.42 28.81 Computer programmers.................... 15.94 15.94 17.52 25.18 32.90 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 18.27 21.85 30.55 39.52 52.74 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 19.69 25.77 36.37 42.79 60.54 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 32.52 37.24 37.24 40.49 42.79 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 21.00 31.42 40.27 53.11 63.10 Management related........................ 17.55 19.58 26.11 31.85 36.87 Accountants and auditors................ 14.50 19.81 26.97 32.57 50.08 Management related, n.e.c............... 14.79 17.55 20.11 26.85 27.93 Sales......................................... 6.67 8.00 9.50 12.50 20.49 Supervisors, sales...................... 9.80 10.70 13.00 17.68 22.84 Sales workers, apparel.................. 7.70 8.30 9.25 10.00 12.00 Sales workers, other commodities........ 6.75 8.50 12.12 13.44 20.38 Cashiers................................ 5.90 6.25 7.50 9.18 10.35 Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.00 9.36 11.83 14.87 18.51 Secretaries............................. 9.12 11.44 14.87 18.00 20.17 Receptionists........................... 7.25 8.00 8.35 10.00 14.00 Order clerks............................ 8.45 10.20 14.25 15.81 16.75 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... $9.15 $12.40 $13.78 $15.19 $16.33 Production coordinators................. 10.20 13.66 15.54 24.21 26.89 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 9.57 11.40 12.73 15.19 15.19 Stock and inventory clerks.............. 8.00 9.05 12.51 15.35 16.22 Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c........... 6.50 7.00 7.85 9.17 13.40 General office clerks................... 7.33 8.63 10.37 11.65 12.50 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 10.00 11.00 13.00 21.69 29.48 Blue collar..................................... 8.00 10.50 16.66 24.17 24.78 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 9.55 12.36 19.17 24.61 28.17 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 13.95 18.39 28.08 28.08 28.57 Machinery maintenance................... 11.85 12.38 13.50 18.16 20.05 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 10.10 13.61 14.49 20.72 21.37 Supervisors, production................. 15.11 16.88 22.00 22.12 23.25 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers........................... 6.24 6.24 8.33 9.20 10.20 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 8.27 10.95 19.59 24.33 24.52 Punching and stamping press operators... 10.41 10.41 12.65 13.07 13.07 Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c.... 8.27 8.27 10.82 13.40 16.00 Molding and casting machine operators... 9.38 13.25 14.62 14.62 15.10 Packaging and filling machine operators. 7.00 7.50 9.99 9.99 10.21 Mixing and blending machine operators... 11.99 12.10 18.60 19.93 19.93 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 11.02 16.06 24.33 24.33 24.87 Assemblers.............................. 8.37 11.66 24.17 24.17 24.33 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 8.32 9.82 18.60 24.52 24.52 Transportation and material moving............ 9.32 9.99 13.78 15.62 17.50 Truck drivers........................... 9.75 11.50 14.49 17.50 17.50 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 6.45 9.09 9.99 15.10 18.60 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 6.75 8.00 9.90 12.00 14.50 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.25 6.85 9.33 12.38 12.51 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 8.25 8.25 10.41 11.52 12.28 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 6.75 6.95 11.05 12.00 17.50 Hand packers and packagers.............. 6.00 6.25 8.18 10.00 14.22 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 7.23 7.23 9.00 11.90 14.62 Service......................................... 5.15 6.27 8.25 10.26 12.50 Protective service........................ 8.25 9.00 11.33 14.29 18.70 Food service.............................. 2.13 2.50 8.21 10.50 10.95 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.13 2.13 2.23 2.50 5.50 Waiters and waitresses.................. 2.13 2.13 2.18 2.28 2.87 Other food service....................... 7.10 8.21 9.80 10.92 11.33 Cooks................................... $6.75 $8.00 $8.50 $11.33 $11.33 Health service............................ 7.00 7.50 8.00 9.45 10.05 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 7.00 7.50 8.00 9.00 10.20 Cleaning and building service............. 5.15 5.45 6.50 8.00 9.23 Maids and housemen...................... 5.50 6.00 6.50 6.97 7.45 Janitors and cleaners................... 5.15 5.25 6.50 8.20 8.98 Personal service.......................... 6.27 6.27 6.27 8.50 9.01 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth receive the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, 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, Huntsville, AL, June 2002 Private industry Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $7.50 $9.84 $17.37 $25.24 $34.99 All excluding sales........................... 7.80 10.40 18.60 26.44 35.69 White collar.................................... 8.50 11.66 21.36 32.45 40.88 White collar excluding sales................ 10.00 14.18 25.23 34.05 42.43 Professional specialty and technical.......... 14.98 22.63 28.89 36.35 42.79 Professional specialty...................... 20.98 26.37 31.80 38.05 44.14 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 24.75 28.51 32.77 38.14 43.39 Aerospace engineers..................... 25.86 28.85 33.19 38.17 43.92 Electrical and electronic engineers..... 24.04 26.45 32.38 39.00 42.50 Industrial engineers.................... 25.79 30.29 32.08 35.77 38.25 Engineers, n.e.c........................ 23.14 28.00 33.17 38.34 42.79 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 22.30 26.44 32.78 39.55 44.62 Computer systems analysts and scientists 22.30 26.44 32.77 39.42 44.60 Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ 17.25 18.77 22.03 27.80 27.80 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... 8.84 8.84 12.84 21.84 22.56 Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 9.00 11.58 20.63 27.75 33.65 Technical................................... 12.00 13.31 18.38 25.41 30.04 Licensed practical nurses............... 11.10 11.75 12.50 13.50 14.50 Electrical and electronic technicians... 10.00 12.38 17.00 23.16 30.04 Engineering technicians, n.e.c.......... 16.00 19.09 23.80 26.34 29.39 Drafters................................ 12.92 14.20 22.20 25.42 28.81 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 17.55 21.85 30.19 39.97 55.53 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 19.69 26.57 35.97 50.50 63.10 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 20.39 31.19 39.84 53.11 63.10 Management related........................ 17.33 19.81 26.40 32.57 36.90 Accountants and auditors................ 14.50 21.39 26.97 36.05 52.89 Management related, n.e.c............... 14.79 17.55 20.11 26.85 27.93 Sales......................................... 6.67 7.80 9.35 12.38 20.49 Supervisors, sales...................... 9.80 10.70 13.00 17.68 22.84 Sales workers, apparel.................. 7.70 8.30 9.25 10.00 12.00 Sales workers, other commodities........ 6.50 7.50 10.12 12.12 20.38 Cashiers................................ 5.60 6.05 7.50 8.93 10.00 Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.00 9.35 11.77 14.61 19.09 Secretaries............................. 10.00 12.01 14.18 17.06 33.07 Receptionists........................... 7.25 8.00 8.35 10.00 14.00 Order clerks............................ 8.45 10.20 14.25 15.81 16.75 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 9.00 10.00 13.75 14.00 21.85 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 9.57 11.40 12.73 15.19 15.19 Stock and inventory clerks.............. $8.00 $9.05 $12.51 $15.35 $16.22 Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c........... 6.50 7.00 7.85 9.17 13.40 General office clerks................... 8.00 9.32 10.62 11.65 12.64 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 10.00 11.00 13.00 21.69 29.48 Blue collar..................................... 8.00 10.36 17.37 24.30 24.83 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 8.93 12.00 18.91 27.94 28.57 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 13.95 18.39 28.08 28.08 28.57 Machinery maintenance................... 11.85 12.38 13.50 18.16 20.05 Supervisors, production................. 13.06 15.25 18.36 20.76 25.58 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers........................... 6.24 6.24 8.33 9.20 10.20 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 8.27 10.95 19.59 24.33 24.52 Punching and stamping press operators... 10.41 10.41 12.65 13.07 13.07 Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c.... 8.27 8.27 10.82 13.40 16.00 Molding and casting machine operators... 9.38 13.25 14.62 14.62 15.10 Packaging and filling machine operators. 7.00 7.50 9.99 9.99 10.21 Mixing and blending machine operators... 11.99 12.10 18.60 19.93 19.93 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 11.02 16.06 24.33 24.33 24.87 Assemblers.............................. 8.37 11.66 24.17 24.17 24.33 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 8.32 9.82 18.60 24.52 24.52 Transportation and material moving............ 8.75 9.75 12.50 17.50 17.50 Truck drivers........................... 9.75 10.36 14.25 17.50 17.50 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 6.45 9.09 9.99 15.10 18.60 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 6.75 7.50 9.00 12.00 14.62 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.25 6.85 9.33 12.38 12.51 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 8.25 8.25 10.41 11.52 12.28 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 6.75 6.95 11.05 12.00 17.50 Hand packers and packagers.............. 6.00 6.25 8.18 10.00 14.22 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 7.23 7.23 9.00 11.90 14.62 Service......................................... 2.25 5.25 7.21 8.30 9.40 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 2.13 2.18 2.87 7.60 10.00 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.13 2.13 2.23 2.45 5.50 Waiters and waitresses.................. 2.13 2.13 2.18 2.28 2.61 Other food service....................... 6.75 7.10 8.34 10.00 13.00 Cooks................................... 6.75 7.54 8.50 10.00 12.50 Health service............................ 7.00 7.25 7.60 8.50 9.50 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. $7.00 $7.00 $7.50 $8.25 $9.31 Cleaning and building service............. 5.15 5.40 6.41 7.61 8.32 Maids and housemen...................... 5.50 6.00 6.45 6.80 7.41 Janitors and cleaners................... 5.15 5.15 6.00 7.75 8.30 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth receive the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, 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, Huntsville, AL, June 2002 State and local government Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $9.31 $11.31 $17.05 $24.61 $30.70 All excluding sales........................... 9.31 11.33 17.39 24.91 30.89 White collar.................................... 9.59 13.81 21.14 27.26 37.24 White collar excluding sales................ 9.59 15.08 21.99 27.26 37.24 Professional specialty and technical.......... 12.05 18.54 23.35 28.22 32.95 Professional specialty...................... 11.73 21.03 25.40 29.76 32.95 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists...... - - - - - Health related............................ - - - - - Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 12.30 15.94 17.33 18.29 21.96 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 18.70 23.39 32.52 39.48 42.79 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 20.28 25.77 37.24 39.52 42.79 Management related........................ - - - - - Sales......................................... - - - - - Administrative support, including clerical.... 7.75 9.44 12.40 15.19 16.94 Blue collar..................................... 10.52 11.96 14.49 22.00 23.07 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 12.02 14.16 22.00 22.12 23.86 Transportation and material moving............ 11.18 12.46 14.49 15.25 15.62 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... - - - - - Service......................................... 6.40 8.85 10.78 11.90 16.41 Protective service........................ 9.53 11.33 12.82 16.41 18.70 Food service.............................. 8.15 8.48 10.37 10.95 11.33 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... - - - - - Health service............................ - - - - - Cleaning and building service............. - - - - - Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth receive the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, 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, Huntsville, AL, June 2002 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $8.25 $10.91 $18.44 $26.11 $34.86 All excluding sales........................... 8.38 11.33 19.09 26.44 35.22 White collar.................................... 9.50 13.31 22.23 31.25 39.98 White collar excluding sales................ 10.10 14.91 24.04 32.52 40.87 Professional specialty and technical.......... 15.19 21.01 26.96 33.59 41.08 Professional specialty...................... 19.12 23.82 28.85 35.96 42.44 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 24.00 28.01 32.69 37.88 43.26 Aerospace engineers..................... 25.86 28.85 33.19 38.17 43.92 Electrical and electronic engineers..... 23.56 25.88 31.73 38.75 42.46 Industrial engineers.................... 25.79 30.29 32.08 35.77 38.25 Engineers, n.e.c........................ 23.14 28.00 33.17 38.34 42.79 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 22.43 26.44 32.21 39.10 44.47 Computer systems analysts and scientists 22.30 26.44 32.21 39.04 44.14 Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ 18.00 22.26 30.89 32.95 52.85 Registered nurses....................... 17.50 19.85 30.89 32.95 32.95 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... 19.82 22.23 25.19 27.26 30.55 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 9.59 9.59 9.59 20.63 27.75 Technical................................... 12.30 14.37 17.52 23.68 29.81 Electrical and electronic technicians... 10.48 13.51 17.22 21.96 30.04 Engineering technicians, n.e.c.......... 16.00 19.09 23.80 26.34 29.39 Drafters................................ 12.92 14.20 22.20 25.42 28.81 Computer programmers.................... 15.94 15.94 17.52 25.18 32.90 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 18.42 22.57 30.55 39.64 52.74 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 20.28 25.77 36.65 42.79 60.54 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 32.52 37.24 37.24 40.49 42.79 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 21.00 31.42 40.27 53.11 63.10 Management related........................ 17.55 19.58 26.11 31.85 36.87 Accountants and auditors................ 14.50 19.81 26.97 32.57 50.08 Management related, n.e.c............... 14.79 17.55 20.11 26.85 27.93 Sales......................................... 7.50 8.60 10.49 15.00 26.15 Supervisors, sales...................... 9.80 10.70 13.00 17.68 22.84 Sales workers, other commodities........ 7.50 9.45 12.12 13.44 20.38 Cashiers................................ 6.50 7.50 8.50 9.70 11.55 Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.15 9.57 12.32 15.19 18.69 Secretaries............................. 9.12 11.45 14.90 18.00 20.17 Receptionists........................... 7.25 8.00 8.44 10.00 14.00 Order clerks............................ 8.45 10.20 14.25 15.81 16.75 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 9.15 12.40 13.78 15.19 16.33 Production coordinators................. 10.20 13.66 15.54 24.21 26.89 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. $9.57 $11.40 $12.73 $15.19 $15.19 Stock and inventory clerks.............. 8.00 9.05 12.51 15.35 16.22 General office clerks................... 7.22 9.32 10.62 11.65 12.64 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 10.00 11.50 14.00 29.04 29.48 Blue collar..................................... 8.27 10.78 17.27 24.17 24.78 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 10.01 13.10 19.17 25.47 28.17 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 13.95 18.39 28.08 28.08 28.57 Machinery maintenance................... 11.85 12.38 13.50 18.16 20.05 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 10.10 13.61 14.49 20.72 21.37 Supervisors, production................. 15.11 16.88 22.00 22.12 23.25 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 8.27 11.00 19.59 24.33 24.52 Punching and stamping press operators... 10.41 10.41 12.65 13.07 13.07 Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c.... 8.27 8.27 10.82 13.40 16.00 Molding and casting machine operators... 9.38 13.25 14.62 14.62 15.10 Packaging and filling machine operators. 7.00 7.50 9.99 9.99 10.21 Mixing and blending machine operators... 11.99 12.10 18.60 19.93 19.93 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 11.13 16.06 24.33 24.33 24.87 Assemblers.............................. 8.37 11.66 24.17 24.17 24.33 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 8.32 9.82 18.60 24.52 24.52 Transportation and material moving............ 9.32 9.99 13.50 15.63 17.50 Truck drivers........................... 9.75 11.50 14.49 17.50 17.50 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 6.45 9.09 9.99 15.10 18.60 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 7.10 8.18 10.38 12.00 14.62 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 8.18 9.33 10.41 12.38 12.51 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 8.25 8.25 10.41 11.52 12.28 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 6.75 6.89 11.11 12.00 17.50 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 7.10 7.23 9.00 12.00 14.62 Service......................................... 2.45 7.38 8.79 10.95 13.16 Protective service........................ 8.27 9.00 11.90 14.51 18.70 Food service.............................. 2.13 2.40 8.41 10.59 10.95 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... 7.83 8.21 9.89 10.95 11.33 Cooks................................... 6.75 8.00 8.50 11.33 11.33 Health service............................ 7.00 7.50 8.00 9.45 10.05 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 7.00 7.50 8.00 9.00 10.45 Cleaning and building service............. 5.75 6.50 7.39 8.28 11.10 Maids and housemen...................... 5.75 6.00 6.45 6.80 7.41 Janitors and cleaners................... 6.00 7.04 8.00 8.72 10.81 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth receive the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, 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, Huntsville, AL, June 2002 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $5.15 $6.00 $7.30 $8.85 $11.80 All excluding sales........................... 5.15 5.50 6.50 9.00 12.50 White collar.................................... 6.00 7.30 8.30 9.95 12.50 White collar excluding sales................ 6.50 8.00 10.39 12.50 32.18 Professional specialty and technical.......... 8.00 11.08 13.25 36.05 50.00 Professional specialty...................... - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists...... - - - - - Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial..... - - - - - Executives, administrators, and managers.. - - - - - Sales......................................... 6.00 6.95 8.00 8.71 9.88 Cashiers................................ 5.25 5.90 6.05 8.30 9.63 Administrative support, including clerical.... 5.75 7.50 8.75 10.85 12.21 Blue collar..................................... 5.30 6.00 6.85 7.39 15.25 Precision production, craft, and repair....... - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. - - - - - Transportation and material moving............ - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 5.15 5.30 6.00 7.00 8.00 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.15 5.15 5.50 6.85 6.85 Service......................................... 5.15 5.15 6.15 7.00 8.32 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 2.25 3.00 5.25 6.88 7.25 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.15 2.25 4.75 6.00 7.60 Other food service....................... - - - - - Health service............................ - - - - - Cleaning and building service............. 5.15 5.15 5.50 6.50 8.20 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth receive the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, 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, Huntsville, AL, June 2002 Full-time and part-time workers Occupational group Private State and Total industry local government All occupations....................................................... 74,100 57,400 16,700 All excluding sales............................................. 68,000 51,600 16,400 White collar........................................................ 40,000 29,000 11,000 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 33,900 23,300 10,600 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 19,300 12,200 - Professional specialty.......................................... 15,500 9,400 - Technical....................................................... 3,900 2,800 1,100 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 6,000 4,700 1,300 Sales............................................................. 6,100 5,700 - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 8,600 6,400 2,200 Blue collar......................................................... 25,000 22,800 2,100 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 6,500 5,500 1,100 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13,400 13,400 - Transportation and material moving................................ 2,200 1,600 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 2,800 2,400 - Service............................................................. 9,100 5,500 3,600 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.