NC BL 09/00/2003 Table: Cleveland-Akron, OH, Bulletin 3120-01, December 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, Cleveland-Akron, OH, December 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................................................................. $18.47 2.3 35.9 $17.34 3.0 36.0 $22.65 2.9 35.7 Worker characteristics:(4) White-collar occupations(5)......................................... 22.60 2.6 36.5 21.32 3.7 36.7 26.14 4.0 35.9 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.19 2.3 35.3 23.26 3.0 35.3 30.65 4.3 35.3 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 31.66 4.9 39.7 32.43 5.3 39.7 28.30 8.8 39.6 Sales............................................................. 16.94 7.6 33.8 16.91 7.7 33.8 – – – Administrative support............................................ 14.23 1.7 37.4 14.00 1.8 38.1 14.98 4.4 35.5 Blue-collar occupations(5).......................................... 15.76 3.0 38.0 15.59 3.3 38.1 17.49 1.0 37.5 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.72 4.9 39.4 20.04 5.9 39.3 18.05 2.8 39.9 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors....................................................... 14.27 1.8 39.3 14.25 1.8 39.3 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.81 9.4 37.7 16.67 12.6 39.4 17.18 9.1 33.7 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers..................................................... 12.70 6.6 33.5 12.53 7.0 33.1 15.43 5.9 39.7 Service occupations(5).............................................. 11.06 3.1 31.2 8.94 2.2 30.0 16.05 7.5 34.2 Full time........................................................... 19.45 2.2 39.5 18.34 2.9 39.6 23.48 2.9 39.2 Part time........................................................... 10.43 4.2 20.5 9.34 3.1 20.8 14.99 9.5 19.4 Union............................................................... 20.26 2.7 37.2 18.59 4.5 37.4 21.86 3.2 36.9 Nonunion............................................................ 17.74 3.1 35.4 17.06 3.5 35.7 24.42 4.0 33.2 Time................................................................ 18.36 2.3 35.8 17.15 3.1 35.9 22.65 2.9 35.7 Incentive........................................................... 22.05 8.3 39.1 22.04 8.3 39.1 – – – Establishment characteristics: Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) - - - (6) (6) (6) Service producing................................................... (6) (6) (6) - - - (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers(7).................................................... 15.48 4.8 34.8 15.44 5.0 34.8 16.58 1.4 34.9 100-499 workers..................................................... 17.35 4.4 36.0 16.52 5.2 36.4 23.13 4.1 33.7 500 workers or more................................................. 21.32 2.0 36.5 20.33 3.2 36.5 22.76 2.5 36.4 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, 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, Cleveland-Akron, OH, December 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................................................................... $18.47 2.3 $17.34 3.0 $22.65 2.9 All excluding sales............................................... 18.57 2.2 17.37 2.9 22.66 2.9 White collar........................................................ 22.60 2.6 21.32 3.7 26.14 4.0 White collar excluding sales.................................... 23.32 2.6 22.12 3.7 26.17 4.0 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.19 2.3 23.26 3.0 30.65 4.3 Professional specialty.......................................... 28.21 2.6 25.34 2.9 31.17 4.7 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 31.65 2.4 31.66 2.5 – – Industrial engineers........................................ 31.61 8.0 31.61 8.0 – – Mechanical engineers........................................ 26.67 .0 26.67 .0 – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 31.88 1.6 31.88 1.6 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 28.27 5.9 29.30 5.6 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 28.67 8.1 30.06 8.4 – – Natural scientists............................................ 27.08 7.0 27.67 8.2 – – Chemists, except biochemists................................ 26.94 10.2 26.94 10.2 – – Health related................................................ 24.64 1.6 22.67 1.8 36.20 4.9 Physicians.................................................. 40.13 22.9 – – – – Registered nurses........................................... 23.13 2.2 22.80 2.2 25.41 6.9 Respiratory therapists...................................... 20.79 .2 20.79 .2 – – Physical therapists......................................... 23.30 6.4 23.30 6.4 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 39.94 7.2 36.83 6.8 40.95 8.9 Teachers, except college and university....................... 31.92 4.9 20.82 17.7 33.64 4.8 Prekindergarten and kindergarten............................ 21.47 19.2 – – – – Elementary school teachers.................................. 34.26 4.0 – – 36.08 2.9 Secondary school teachers................................... 34.86 5.1 26.11 .5 – – Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 33.68 4.0 – – 32.95 2.3 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 28.50 16.4 – – 30.09 17.2 Librarians.................................................. 28.50 16.4 – – 30.09 17.2 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 19.43 4.0 15.86 5.8 20.79 2.6 Social workers.............................................. 19.43 4.0 15.86 5.8 20.79 2.6 Lawyers and judges............................................ 35.52 17.1 – – – – Lawyers..................................................... 35.52 17.1 – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 21.72 6.2 21.71 6.3 – – Professional, n.e.c......................................... 18.21 6.3 18.13 6.5 – – Technical....................................................... 19.56 4.6 19.44 5.0 20.81 10.2 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 16.87 6.5 16.87 6.5 – – Radiological technicians.................................... 19.99 12.6 21.08 14.1 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 17.44 1.8 17.23 1.7 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 18.07 25.7 17.96 26.7 – – Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 22.22 9.1 – – – – Drafters.................................................... 21.18 10.3 21.18 10.3 – – Chemical technicians........................................ 20.98 9.8 20.98 9.8 – – Computer programmers........................................ 25.29 24.3 – – – – Technical and related, n.e.c................................ $18.25 12.9 $18.06 18.3 $18.72 9.5 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 31.66 4.9 32.43 5.3 28.30 8.8 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 36.94 6.3 38.44 7.0 31.34 8.7 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 23.60 13.5 – – 23.60 13.5 Financial managers.......................................... 45.72 11.8 45.76 11.8 – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 38.06 8.6 40.52 7.4 – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 41.28 6.3 28.85 15.5 47.18 3.3 Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 29.10 10.4 32.98 7.3 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 35.06 9.7 35.20 9.8 – – Management related............................................ 22.35 2.7 22.65 2.9 20.57 6.7 Accountants and auditors.................................... 20.68 5.9 20.46 6.3 – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 22.28 9.2 22.42 9.5 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 22.10 5.9 22.28 7.1 – – Sales............................................................. 16.94 7.6 16.91 7.7 – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 21.80 11.9 21.93 12.5 – – Sales, other business services.............................. 25.08 12.3 25.08 12.3 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 10.26 12.4 10.26 12.4 – – Cashiers.................................................... 9.14 7.4 8.86 7.4 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 14.23 1.7 14.00 1.8 14.98 4.4 Supervisors, general office................................. 21.37 8.0 20.75 9.9 – – Secretaries................................................. 15.28 3.3 15.50 3.6 14.76 6.5 Interviewers................................................ 11.89 3.9 11.89 3.9 – – Receptionists............................................... 12.02 5.4 11.43 3.5 – – Order clerks................................................ 14.00 4.5 14.00 4.5 – – Library clerks.............................................. 11.17 7.9 – – 11.22 8.8 File clerks................................................. 10.94 3.4 10.94 3.4 – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 12.73 8.0 12.95 9.3 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.10 4.8 14.21 5.2 – – Payroll and timekeeping clerks.............................. 14.80 5.7 14.26 5.4 – – Billing clerks.............................................. 12.76 2.0 12.76 2.0 – – Telephone operators......................................... 10.69 1.0 10.69 1.0 – – Mail clerks, except postal service.......................... 9.89 8.2 9.89 8.2 – – Dispatchers................................................. 11.36 24.3 – – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 13.31 4.6 13.31 4.6 – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 12.59 12.6 12.59 12.6 – – Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 13.49 9.7 13.49 9.7 – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 16.01 15.4 16.01 15.4 – – Bill and account collectors................................. 13.41 7.9 13.41 7.9 – – General office clerks....................................... 14.97 4.3 13.82 6.3 17.42 6.4 Teachers' aides............................................. 13.56 14.2 – – 13.70 13.7 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 13.59 8.1 13.66 10.0 – – Blue collar......................................................... 15.76 3.0 15.59 3.3 17.49 1.0 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... $19.72 4.9 $20.04 5.9 $18.05 2.8 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 16.86 34.7 – – – – Automobile mechanics........................................ 18.60 2.7 – – – – Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 18.81 6.3 – – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 21.80 10.6 21.82 10.8 – – Machinery maintenance....................................... 12.47 5.7 – – – – Millwrights................................................. 24.85 4.8 24.85 4.8 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 17.97 4.7 17.61 6.2 – – Electricians................................................ 24.54 7.2 25.25 7.1 – – Painters, construction and maintenance...................... 22.71 15.4 – – – – Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters...................... 21.18 8.0 21.80 9.2 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 19.74 5.3 19.74 5.3 – – Tool and die makers......................................... 21.72 5.0 21.72 5.0 – – Inspectors, testers, and graders............................ 16.39 10.7 15.39 10.6 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.27 1.8 14.25 1.8 – – Punching and stamping press operators....................... 12.08 11.0 12.08 11.0 – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 14.59 2.5 14.59 2.5 – – Numerical control machine operators......................... 17.94 10.9 17.94 10.9 – – Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 18.05 12.4 18.05 12.4 – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 11.26 10.5 11.26 10.5 – – Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators............... 8.47 2.1 8.47 2.1 – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 12.33 5.3 12.33 5.3 – – Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 13.71 .3 13.71 .3 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 15.22 6.6 15.06 6.7 – – Welders and cutters......................................... 14.87 19.9 14.87 19.9 – – Assemblers.................................................. 13.78 3.3 13.78 3.3 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 13.09 5.2 13.09 5.2 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.81 9.4 16.67 12.6 17.18 9.1 Truck drivers............................................... 18.95 9.2 19.02 9.1 – – Bus drivers................................................. 17.27 2.0 – – 17.34 2.0 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 14.05 11.5 14.05 11.5 – – Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, n.e.c.... 17.20 16.0 – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.70 6.6 12.53 7.0 15.43 5.9 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 10.19 4.8 9.89 3.9 – – Production helpers.......................................... 15.62 10.8 15.62 10.8 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 10.70 7.5 10.69 7.8 – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 11.52 4.3 11.52 4.3 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 12.36 8.1 12.36 8.1 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 12.55 4.7 12.55 4.7 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 11.88 14.9 11.30 17.1 – – Service............................................................. 11.06 3.1 8.94 2.2 16.05 7.5 Protective service............................................ $14.79 17.9 $9.33 6.4 $19.32 11.7 Firefighting................................................ 18.13 9.1 – – 18.13 9.1 Police and detectives, public service....................... 21.08 6.2 – – 21.08 6.2 Protective service, n.e.c................................... 12.91 13.0 – – – – Food service.................................................. 7.58 3.3 7.02 3.3 11.73 3.7 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.36 9.2 3.36 9.2 – – Bartenders.................................................. 4.18 3.9 4.18 3.9 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.59 14.6 3.59 14.6 – – Other food service........................................... 9.01 3.1 8.49 3.2 11.73 3.7 Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 13.97 5.8 14.72 9.2 – – Cooks....................................................... 10.63 6.9 10.29 9.2 – – Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 7.19 8.5 7.15 8.7 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.19 9.4 7.58 8.3 11.52 1.7 Health service................................................ 10.73 3.0 10.17 3.0 13.93 9.1 Health aides, except nursing................................ 12.37 3.9 10.62 4.3 14.90 5.7 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.04 3.4 10.05 3.5 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 12.02 4.2 11.98 6.7 12.08 4.3 Maids and housemen.......................................... 9.00 7.5 9.00 7.5 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 12.32 3.9 12.54 6.2 12.08 4.3 Personal service.............................................. 12.78 11.9 10.01 3.9 17.35 12.1 Early childhood teachers' assistants........................ 8.12 4.7 – – – – Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 16.77 6.8 – – – – Service, n.e.c.............................................. 8.21 8.5 7.95 10.5 – – 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, Cleveland-Akron, OH, December 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................................................................... $19.45 2.2 $18.34 2.9 $23.48 2.9 All excluding sales............................................... 19.47 2.1 18.28 2.8 23.49 2.9 White collar........................................................ 23.24 2.8 21.95 3.8 26.81 3.8 White collar excluding sales.................................... 23.68 2.8 22.37 3.8 26.85 3.8 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.72 2.3 23.57 3.1 31.47 3.7 Professional specialty.......................................... 28.84 2.3 25.71 2.7 32.06 4.2 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 31.65 2.4 31.66 2.5 – – Industrial engineers........................................ 31.61 8.0 31.61 8.0 – – Mechanical engineers........................................ 26.67 .0 26.67 .0 – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 31.88 1.6 31.88 1.6 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 28.27 5.9 29.30 5.6 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 28.67 8.1 30.06 8.4 – – Natural scientists............................................ 27.08 7.0 27.67 8.2 – – Chemists, except biochemists................................ 26.94 10.2 26.94 10.2 – – Health related................................................ 24.92 1.1 22.51 1.1 37.51 5.5 Physicians.................................................. 39.38 22.8 – – – – Registered nurses........................................... 23.29 1.8 22.93 1.4 25.62 7.8 Respiratory therapists...................................... 20.96 .7 20.96 .7 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 41.31 4.9 36.87 6.7 42.88 5.1 Teachers, except college and university....................... 33.38 3.2 22.27 15.3 34.99 2.7 Prekindergarten and kindergarten............................ 23.66 12.5 10.34 17.4 – – Elementary school teachers.................................. 34.51 3.9 – – 36.12 3.0 Secondary school teachers................................... 34.92 5.0 26.24 .3 – – Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 35.70 2.8 – – 34.71 1.1 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 29.93 15.7 – – 31.80 15.8 Librarians.................................................. 29.93 15.7 – – 31.80 15.8 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 19.43 4.1 15.73 6.7 20.79 2.6 Social workers.............................................. 19.43 4.1 15.73 6.7 20.79 2.6 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 21.64 6.3 21.62 6.4 – – Professional, n.e.c......................................... 17.86 7.0 17.78 7.1 – – Technical....................................................... 19.81 4.9 19.69 5.3 21.08 10.3 Radiological technicians.................................... 20.13 18.1 – – – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 17.52 2.0 17.27 1.8 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 18.95 39.5 18.84 41.9 – – Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 22.22 9.1 – – – – Drafters.................................................... 21.18 10.3 21.18 10.3 – – Chemical technicians........................................ 20.98 9.8 20.98 9.8 – – Computer programmers........................................ 25.29 24.3 – – – – Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 18.39 13.0 18.08 18.3 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 31.69 4.9 32.46 5.4 28.37 8.8 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... $36.95 6.3 $38.44 7.0 $31.38 8.8 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 23.60 13.5 – – 23.60 13.5 Financial managers.......................................... 45.72 11.8 45.76 11.8 – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 38.06 8.6 40.52 7.4 – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 41.28 6.3 28.85 15.5 47.18 3.3 Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 29.10 10.4 32.98 7.3 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 35.08 9.7 35.20 9.8 – – Management related............................................ 22.28 2.8 22.56 3.0 20.60 6.8 Accountants and auditors.................................... 20.68 5.9 20.46 6.3 – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 22.46 9.7 22.54 9.8 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 21.76 5.8 21.87 6.9 – – Sales............................................................. 19.16 7.8 19.15 7.9 – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 21.80 11.9 21.93 12.5 – – Sales, other business services.............................. 25.08 12.3 25.08 12.3 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 11.95 15.1 11.95 15.1 – – Cashiers.................................................... 10.64 8.9 – – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 14.42 1.7 14.09 1.8 15.54 3.9 Supervisors, general office................................. 21.69 7.3 21.15 9.3 – – Secretaries................................................. 15.28 3.3 15.50 3.7 14.78 6.5 Receptionists............................................... 12.14 5.6 11.52 3.5 – – Order clerks................................................ 14.00 4.5 14.00 4.5 – – Library clerks.............................................. 13.58 7.4 – – 14.05 7.7 File clerks................................................. 10.94 3.4 10.94 3.4 – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 12.78 8.1 12.95 9.3 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.22 5.0 14.26 5.3 – – Payroll and timekeeping clerks.............................. 16.42 6.8 16.27 9.4 – – Billing clerks.............................................. 13.00 1.4 13.00 1.4 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 13.31 4.6 13.31 4.6 – – Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 13.49 9.7 13.49 9.7 – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 16.01 15.4 16.01 15.4 – – Bill and account collectors................................. 13.41 7.9 13.41 7.9 – – General office clerks....................................... 15.06 4.3 13.88 6.4 17.57 6.7 Teachers' aides............................................. 14.25 11.9 – – – – Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 13.70 8.6 13.78 10.5 – – Blue collar......................................................... 16.12 3.1 15.98 3.4 17.66 1.4 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.84 5.0 20.19 6.0 18.05 2.8 Automobile mechanics........................................ 18.60 2.7 – – – – Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 18.81 6.3 – – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 21.80 10.6 21.82 10.8 – – Millwrights................................................. 24.85 4.8 24.85 4.8 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 17.97 4.7 17.61 6.2 – – Electricians................................................ 24.54 7.2 25.25 7.1 – – Painters, construction and maintenance...................... $22.71 15.4 – – – – Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters...................... 21.18 8.0 $21.80 9.2 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 19.74 5.3 19.74 5.3 – – Tool and die makers......................................... 21.72 5.0 21.72 5.0 – – Inspectors, testers, and graders............................ 16.39 10.7 15.39 10.6 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.44 2.0 14.42 2.0 – – Punching and stamping press operators....................... 12.08 11.0 12.08 11.0 – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 14.59 2.5 14.59 2.5 – – Numerical control machine operators......................... 17.94 10.9 17.94 10.9 – – Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 18.05 12.4 18.05 12.4 – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 11.95 9.1 11.95 9.1 – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 12.33 5.3 12.33 5.3 – – Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 13.71 .3 13.71 .3 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 15.87 6.2 15.71 6.2 – – Welders and cutters......................................... 14.87 19.9 14.87 19.9 – – Assemblers.................................................. 13.84 3.1 13.84 3.1 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 13.09 5.2 13.09 5.2 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.92 9.9 16.70 12.6 $17.67 11.0 Truck drivers............................................... 19.06 9.1 19.06 9.1 – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 14.05 11.5 14.05 11.5 – – Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, n.e.c.... 17.20 16.0 – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 13.64 7.4 13.49 8.0 15.46 5.9 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 10.61 3.5 – – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 12.61 5.1 12.68 5.4 – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 11.52 4.3 11.52 4.3 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 14.03 8.0 14.03 8.0 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 12.57 4.7 12.57 4.7 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 12.18 15.6 11.59 17.9 – – Service............................................................. 12.65 5.6 10.32 4.0 16.93 8.5 Protective service............................................ 15.15 17.8 9.32 6.3 19.39 12.3 Police and detectives, public service....................... 21.18 6.1 – – 21.18 6.1 Guards and police, except public service.................... 9.38 7.9 9.24 6.7 – – Food service.................................................. 9.70 4.1 9.26 4.1 – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.53 23.4 3.53 23.4 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.93 28.8 3.93 28.8 – – Other food service........................................... 10.89 4.2 10.64 4.9 – – Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 14.37 7.8 14.72 9.2 – – Cooks....................................................... 11.16 5.5 11.19 7.1 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 9.60 2.3 8.63 3.4 – – Health service................................................ 10.83 3.6 10.27 3.6 13.98 10.1 Health aides, except nursing................................ 12.77 5.3 11.05 5.4 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.06 3.4 10.08 3.5 – – Cleaning and building service................................. $12.19 5.7 $12.08 7.0 $12.38 10.5 Maids and housemen.......................................... 9.05 7.8 9.05 7.8 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 12.54 5.6 12.66 6.2 12.38 10.5 Personal service.............................................. 14.97 12.4 11.85 2.8 19.62 9.6 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 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, Cleveland-Akron, OH, December 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................................................................... $10.43 4.2 $9.34 3.1 $14.99 9.5 All excluding sales............................................... 10.73 4.2 9.56 3.0 14.99 9.5 White collar........................................................ 14.83 6.5 13.83 4.9 17.73 13.4 White collar excluding sales.................................... 17.70 5.4 17.69 4.2 17.73 13.4 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 20.74 3.6 20.18 2.4 21.67 7.5 Professional specialty.......................................... 21.84 3.9 21.84 4.5 21.84 7.4 Health related................................................ 23.42 4.9 23.35 5.3 – – Registered nurses........................................... 22.51 4.9 22.34 5.3 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 20.49 13.3 13.57 29.1 22.18 7.3 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 22.73 10.9 – – 22.70 12.2 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 16.75 4.9 – – 17.25 .0 Librarians.................................................. 16.75 4.9 – – 17.25 .0 Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 16.59 3.3 16.74 3.1 – – Radiological technicians.................................... 19.36 11.0 19.36 11.0 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 26.50 18.5 – – – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... – – – – – – Management related............................................ – – – – – – Sales............................................................. 7.90 4.2 7.90 4.2 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 7.93 3.2 7.93 3.2 – – Cashiers.................................................... 8.05 6.8 8.05 6.8 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 11.11 4.5 12.20 6.1 9.00 5.4 Secretaries................................................. 15.31 10.1 15.46 9.9 – – Library clerks.............................................. 8.70 1.0 – – 8.78 .4 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 11.83 2.9 – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 9.50 4.5 8.85 2.9 15.09 1.9 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... – – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 8.20 .7 8.20 .7 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 14.82 3.2 – – 15.14 1.7 Bus drivers................................................. 15.05 2.3 – – 15.21 1.1 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 8.99 3.7 8.99 3.7 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 7.06 2.3 7.06 2.3 – – Service............................................................. $7.41 7.0 $6.47 2.4 $11.90 11.2 Protective service............................................ 10.85 18.1 – – – – Food service.................................................. 6.31 5.6 5.79 2.9 11.57 12.7 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.30 10.1 3.30 10.1 – – Bartenders.................................................. 4.74 10.3 4.74 10.3 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.47 14.3 3.47 14.3 – – Other food service........................................... 7.64 5.5 7.05 3.0 11.57 12.7 Cooks....................................................... 9.60 11.1 8.25 4.8 – – Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 6.75 7.6 6.68 7.7 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 7.37 6.2 7.12 3.1 – – Health service................................................ 9.97 3.9 9.50 1.9 – – Health aides, except nursing................................ 10.21 14.4 8.71 12.4 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 9.83 3.6 9.82 3.7 – – Cleaning and building service................................. $11.10 15.0 $10.54 23.3 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 11.21 15.1 10.94 27.0 – – Personal service.............................................. 7.94 10.7 6.38 11.7 $11.16 18.0 Service, n.e.c.............................................. 5.59 25.8 5.59 25.8 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Cleveland-Akron, OH, December 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................................................................... $769 2.2 39.5 $727 2.9 39.6 $921 3.0 39.2 All excluding sales............................................... 769 2.1 39.5 724 2.8 39.6 922 3.0 39.2 White collar........................................................ 915 2.7 39.4 868 3.8 39.6 1,043 3.3 38.9 White collar excluding sales.................................... 932 2.7 39.3 885 3.9 39.5 1,044 3.3 38.9 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 1,041 2.0 39.0 927 3.1 39.3 1,210 2.7 38.4 Professional specialty.......................................... 1,121 1.9 38.9 1,011 2.7 39.3 1,230 3.2 38.4 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 1,263 2.4 39.9 1,263 2.5 39.9 – – – Industrial engineers........................................ 1,264 8.0 40.0 1,264 8.0 40.0 – – – Mechanical engineers........................................ 1,067 .0 40.0 1,067 .0 40.0 – – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 1,265 2.2 39.7 1,265 2.2 39.7 – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 1,108 5.5 39.2 1,151 5.0 39.3 – – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 1,134 8.0 39.5 1,194 8.0 39.7 – – – Natural scientists............................................ 1,057 5.5 39.0 1,072 6.7 38.7 – – – Chemists, except biochemists................................ 1,041 8.5 38.6 1,041 8.5 38.6 – – – Health related................................................ 991 .9 39.8 894 .8 39.7 1,497 5.5 39.9 Physicians.................................................. 1,575 22.8 40.0 – – – – – – Registered nurses........................................... 924 1.6 39.7 909 1.0 39.7 1,021 7.8 39.8 Respiratory therapists...................................... 838 .7 40.0 838 .7 40.0 – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 1,617 5.1 39.1 1,406 6.3 38.1 1,693 5.0 39.5 Teachers, except college and university....................... 1,245 2.5 37.3 819 14.6 36.8 1,307 1.6 37.4 Prekindergarten and kindergarten............................ 892 11.1 37.7 405 16.0 39.2 – – – Elementary school teachers.................................. 1,254 2.7 36.3 – – – 1,328 .4 36.8 Secondary school teachers................................... 1,328 4.8 38.0 994 .8 37.9 – – – Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 1,333 2.9 37.3 – – – 1,295 .7 37.3 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 1,116 13.5 37.3 – – – 1,176 13.3 37.0 Librarians.................................................. 1,116 13.5 37.3 – – – 1,176 13.3 37.0 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 773 4.0 39.8 621 5.2 39.5 830 2.8 39.9 Social workers.............................................. 773 4.0 39.8 621 5.2 39.5 830 2.8 39.9 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 849 6.5 39.2 849 6.6 39.2 – – – Professional, n.e.c......................................... 714 7.0 40.0 711 7.1 40.0 – – – Technical....................................................... 780 4.9 39.4 774 5.3 39.3 837 10.2 39.7 Radiological technicians.................................... 805 18.1 40.0 – – – – – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 688 2.1 39.3 677 2.1 39.2 – – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 755 39.3 39.8 753 41.9 40.0 – – – Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 874 9.8 39.3 – – – – – – Drafters.................................................... 847 10.3 40.0 847 10.3 40.0 – – – Chemical technicians........................................ 824 9.2 39.3 824 9.2 39.3 – – – Computer programmers........................................ $999 23.4 39.5 – – – – – – Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 729 12.7 39.6 $716 17.8 39.6 – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 1,262 5.0 39.8 1,292 5.4 39.8 $1,131 8.8 39.9 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 1,473 6.4 39.9 1,531 7.3 39.8 1,254 8.7 39.9 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 943 13.5 40.0 – – – 943 13.5 40.0 Financial managers.......................................... 1,808 11.9 39.5 1,810 12.0 39.6 – – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 1,525 7.5 40.1 1,625 5.3 40.1 – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 1,613 6.7 39.1 1,077 14.6 37.3 1,886 3.4 40.0 Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 1,132 9.5 38.9 1,264 6.9 38.3 – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 1,407 9.8 40.1 1,413 9.9 40.1 – – – Management related............................................ 886 2.7 39.8 898 2.9 39.8 816 6.6 39.6 Accountants and auditors.................................... 827 5.8 40.0 818 6.3 40.0 – – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 897 9.7 40.0 902 9.8 40.0 – – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 855 5.1 39.3 860 6.1 39.3 – – – Sales............................................................. 761 8.1 39.7 760 8.2 39.7 – – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 880 13.1 40.4 886 13.8 40.4 – – – Sales, other business services.............................. 1,015 12.1 40.5 1,015 12.1 40.5 – – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 445 11.4 37.2 445 11.4 37.2 – – – Cashiers.................................................... 426 8.9 40.0 – – – – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 570 1.8 39.5 557 2.0 39.6 612 4.5 39.4 Supervisors, general office................................. 867 7.3 40.0 846 9.3 40.0 – – – Secretaries................................................. 602 3.2 39.4 610 3.2 39.3 585 6.9 39.5 Receptionists............................................... 484 5.5 39.9 459 3.3 39.9 – – – Order clerks................................................ 548 5.1 39.1 548 5.1 39.1 – – – Library clerks.............................................. 515 8.4 37.9 – – – 534 8.7 38.0 File clerks................................................. 437 3.4 40.0 437 3.4 40.0 – – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 500 8.6 39.1 503 9.8 38.8 – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 569 5.0 40.0 570 5.3 40.0 – – – Payroll and timekeeping clerks.............................. 657 6.8 40.0 651 9.4 40.0 – – – Billing clerks.............................................. 507 1.5 39.0 507 1.5 39.0 – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 533 4.6 40.0 533 4.6 40.0 – – – Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 527 12.4 39.1 527 12.4 39.1 – – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 640 15.4 40.0 640 15.4 40.0 – – – Bill and account collectors................................. 536 7.9 40.0 536 7.9 40.0 – – – General office clerks....................................... 591 4.1 39.3 551 6.2 39.7 673 8.4 38.3 Teachers' aides............................................. 546 16.5 38.3 – – – – – – Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 537 8.6 39.2 541 10.5 39.2 – – – Blue collar......................................................... 642 3.1 39.8 637 3.4 39.9 699 2.1 39.6 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... $789 5.1 39.8 $802 6.1 39.7 $721 2.9 39.9 Automobile mechanics........................................ 744 2.7 40.0 – – – – – – Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 752 6.3 40.0 – – – – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 872 10.6 40.0 873 10.8 40.0 – – – Millwrights................................................. 994 4.8 40.0 994 4.8 40.0 – – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 718 4.6 39.9 703 6.0 39.9 – – – Electricians................................................ 982 7.2 40.0 1,010 7.1 40.0 – – – Painters, construction and maintenance...................... 898 15.3 39.6 – – – – – – Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters...................... 831 8.7 39.3 854 9.9 39.2 – – – Supervisors, production..................................... 790 5.3 40.0 790 5.3 40.0 – – – Tool and die makers......................................... 869 5.0 40.0 869 5.0 40.0 – – – Inspectors, testers, and graders............................ 655 10.7 40.0 616 10.6 40.0 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 576 1.9 39.9 575 1.9 39.9 – – – Punching and stamping press operators....................... 483 11.0 40.0 483 11.0 40.0 – – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 581 3.0 39.9 581 3.0 39.9 – – – Numerical control machine operators......................... 718 10.9 40.0 718 10.9 40.0 – – – Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 722 12.4 40.0 722 12.4 40.0 – – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 475 8.8 39.8 475 8.8 39.8 – – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 484 7.0 39.2 484 7.0 39.2 – – – Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 549 .3 40.0 549 .3 40.0 – – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 635 6.2 40.0 628 6.2 40.0 – – – Welders and cutters......................................... 587 19.4 39.5 587 19.4 39.5 – – – Assemblers.................................................. 553 3.1 40.0 553 3.1 40.0 – – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 523 5.2 40.0 523 5.2 40.0 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 672 9.9 39.7 668 12.6 40.0 686 11.4 38.8 Truck drivers............................................... 762 9.1 40.0 762 9.1 40.0 – – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 562 11.5 40.0 562 11.5 40.0 – – – Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, n.e.c.... 688 16.0 40.0 – – – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 543 7.4 39.8 537 8.1 39.8 619 5.9 40.0 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 388 9.5 36.6 – – – – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 498 5.7 39.5 501 6.0 39.5 – – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 461 4.3 40.0 461 4.3 40.0 – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 561 8.0 40.0 561 8.0 40.0 – – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 503 4.7 40.0 503 4.7 40.0 – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 487 15.6 40.0 463 17.9 40.0 – – – Service............................................................. 499 5.5 39.4 403 3.7 39.1 679 9.1 40.1 Protective service............................................ 612 18.8 40.4 373 6.3 40.0 790 14.6 40.7 Police and detectives, public service....................... $847 6.1 40.0 – – – $847 6.1 40.0 Guards and police, except public service.................... 375 7.9 40.0 $370 6.7 40.0 – – – Food service.................................................. 373 3.5 38.5 359 3.7 38.7 – – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 137 22.0 38.8 137 22.0 38.8 – – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 151 26.2 38.4 151 26.2 38.4 – – – Other food service........................................... 419 3.8 38.4 412 4.6 38.7 – – – Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 534 11.0 37.2 589 9.2 40.0 – – – Cooks....................................................... 440 6.4 39.5 440 8.3 39.3 – – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 365 2.6 38.0 322 4.6 37.3 – – – Health service................................................ 424 3.9 39.2 401 4.1 39.0 559 10.1 40.0 Health aides, except nursing................................ 509 5.4 39.9 440 5.5 39.8 – – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 391 4.0 38.9 391 4.2 38.8 – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 483 5.8 39.6 479 7.0 39.6 492 10.6 39.7 Maids and housemen.......................................... 362 7.8 40.0 362 7.8 40.0 – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 497 5.7 39.6 500 6.5 39.5 492 10.6 39.7 Personal service.............................................. 570 13.8 38.1 437 1.8 36.9 785 9.6 40.0 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, Cleveland-Akron, OH, December 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................................................................... $38,872 2.2 1,998 $37,511 2.9 2,045 $43,322 3.0 1,845 All excluding sales............................................... 38,835 2.1 1,995 37,371 2.8 2,044 43,327 3.0 1,845 White collar........................................................ 45,460 2.7 1,956 44,740 3.8 2,038 47,184 3.3 1,760 White collar excluding sales.................................... 46,065 2.7 1,945 45,519 3.9 2,034 47,207 3.3 1,758 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 48,990 2.0 1,833 47,064 3.1 1,997 51,363 2.7 1,632 Professional specialty.......................................... 51,329 1.9 1,780 50,678 2.7 1,971 51,877 3.2 1,618 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 65,651 2.4 2,074 65,661 2.5 2,074 – – – Industrial engineers........................................ 65,748 8.0 2,080 65,748 8.0 2,080 – – – Mechanical engineers........................................ 55,476 .0 2,080 55,476 .0 2,080 – – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 65,803 2.2 2,064 65,803 2.2 2,064 – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 57,641 5.5 2,039 59,829 5.0 2,042 – – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 58,958 8.0 2,057 62,071 8.0 2,065 – – – Natural scientists............................................ 54,975 5.5 2,030 55,729 6.7 2,014 – – – Chemists, except biochemists................................ 54,115 8.5 2,009 54,115 8.5 2,009 – – – Health related................................................ 51,498 .9 2,067 46,508 .8 2,066 77,654 5.5 2,070 Physicians.................................................. 81,915 22.8 2,080 – – – – – – Registered nurses........................................... 48,038 1.6 2,062 47,280 1.0 2,062 52,899 7.8 2,064 Respiratory therapists...................................... 43,593 .7 2,080 43,593 .7 2,080 – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 65,728 5.1 1,591 59,132 6.3 1,604 68,028 5.0 1,587 Teachers, except college and university....................... 47,854 2.5 1,433 32,850 14.6 1,475 49,953 1.6 1,428 Prekindergarten and kindergarten............................ 36,774 11.1 1,554 18,403 16.0 1,780 – – – Elementary school teachers.................................. 46,804 2.7 1,356 – – – 49,474 .4 1,370 Secondary school teachers................................... 49,835 4.8 1,427 36,700 .8 1,399 – – – Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 51,064 2.9 1,430 – – – 49,459 .7 1,425 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 49,612 13.5 1,658 – – – 51,578 13.3 1,622 Librarians.................................................. 49,612 13.5 1,658 – – – 51,578 13.3 1,622 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 39,440 4.0 2,030 32,305 5.2 2,053 42,026 2.8 2,021 Social workers.............................................. 39,440 4.0 2,030 32,305 5.2 2,053 42,026 2.8 2,021 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 42,678 6.5 1,972 42,655 6.6 1,972 – – – Professional, n.e.c......................................... 37,120 7.0 2,079 36,973 7.1 2,080 – – – Technical....................................................... 40,291 4.9 2,033 40,269 5.3 2,045 40,505 10.2 1,921 Radiological technicians.................................... 41,875 18.1 2,080 – – – – – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 34,792 2.1 1,986 35,224 2.1 2,039 – – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 39,251 39.3 2,071 39,178 41.9 2,080 – – – Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 44,398 9.8 1,998 – – – – – – Drafters.................................................... 44,045 10.3 2,080 44,045 10.3 2,080 – – – Chemical technicians........................................ 42,861 9.2 2,043 42,861 9.2 2,043 – – – Computer programmers........................................ $51,922 23.4 2,053 – – – – – – Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 37,901 12.7 2,061 $37,247 17.8 2,060 – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 65,112 5.0 2,054 67,047 5.4 2,066 $56,932 8.8 2,007 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 75,646 6.4 2,047 79,313 7.3 2,064 62,355 8.7 1,987 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 49,053 13.5 2,078 – – – 49,053 13.5 2,078 Financial managers.......................................... 94,004 11.9 2,056 94,107 12.0 2,057 – – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 79,324 7.5 2,084 84,495 5.3 2,085 – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 74,871 6.7 1,814 51,672 14.6 1,791 86,078 3.4 1,825 Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 58,880 9.5 2,023 65,746 6.9 1,994 – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 73,190 9.8 2,086 73,456 9.9 2,087 – – – Management related............................................ 46,062 2.7 2,068 46,683 2.9 2,069 42,442 6.6 2,060 Accountants and auditors.................................... 42,983 5.8 2,079 42,526 6.3 2,079 – – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 46,654 9.7 2,078 46,880 9.8 2,080 – – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 44,464 5.1 2,044 44,717 6.1 2,044 – – – Sales............................................................. 39,556 8.1 2,064 39,529 8.2 2,064 – – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 45,764 13.1 2,099 46,058 13.8 2,100 – – – Sales, other business services.............................. 52,771 12.1 2,104 52,771 12.1 2,104 – – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 23,137 11.4 1,937 23,137 11.4 1,937 – – – Cashiers.................................................... 22,136 8.9 2,080 – – – – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 29,304 1.8 2,032 28,910 2.0 2,051 30,595 4.5 1,969 Supervisors, general office................................. 45,107 7.3 2,080 43,987 9.3 2,080 – – – Secretaries................................................. 30,791 3.2 2,016 31,620 3.2 2,040 29,028 6.9 1,964 Receptionists............................................... 25,181 5.5 2,074 23,876 3.3 2,073 – – – Order clerks................................................ 28,474 5.1 2,034 28,474 5.1 2,034 – – – Library clerks.............................................. 26,785 8.4 1,972 – – – 27,791 8.7 1,978 File clerks................................................. 22,747 3.4 2,080 22,747 3.4 2,080 – – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 26,006 8.6 2,035 26,136 9.8 2,019 – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 29,576 5.0 2,079 29,648 5.3 2,079 – – – Payroll and timekeeping clerks.............................. 34,162 6.8 2,080 33,843 9.4 2,080 – – – Billing clerks.............................................. 26,373 1.5 2,029 26,373 1.5 2,029 – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 27,694 4.6 2,080 27,694 4.6 2,080 – – – Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 27,392 12.4 2,031 27,392 12.4 2,031 – – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 33,292 15.4 2,080 33,292 15.4 2,080 – – – Bill and account collectors................................. 27,884 7.9 2,080 27,884 7.9 2,080 – – – General office clerks....................................... 30,499 4.1 2,025 28,672 6.2 2,066 34,124 8.4 1,943 Teachers' aides............................................. 24,457 16.5 1,717 – – – – – – Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 27,473 8.6 2,005 28,107 10.5 2,040 – – – Blue collar......................................................... 33,282 3.1 2,064 33,060 3.4 2,068 35,654 2.1 2,019 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... $40,917 5.1 2,062 $41,585 6.1 2,059 $37,483 2.9 2,077 Automobile mechanics........................................ 38,684 2.7 2,080 – – – – – – Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 39,123 6.3 2,080 – – – – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 45,340 10.6 2,080 45,388 10.8 2,080 – – – Millwrights................................................. 51,678 4.8 2,080 51,678 4.8 2,080 – – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 37,318 4.6 2,076 36,544 6.0 2,075 – – – Electricians................................................ 51,040 7.2 2,080 52,526 7.1 2,080 – – – Painters, construction and maintenance...................... 46,716 15.3 2,057 – – – – – – Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters...................... 43,235 8.7 2,041 44,419 9.9 2,038 – – – Supervisors, production..................................... 41,062 5.3 2,080 41,062 5.3 2,080 – – – Tool and die makers......................................... 45,174 5.0 2,080 45,174 5.0 2,080 – – – Inspectors, testers, and graders............................ 34,084 10.7 2,080 32,008 10.6 2,080 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 29,977 1.9 2,075 29,925 1.9 2,075 – – – Punching and stamping press operators....................... 25,119 11.0 2,080 25,119 11.0 2,080 – – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 30,229 3.0 2,073 30,229 3.0 2,073 – – – Numerical control machine operators......................... 37,320 10.9 2,080 37,320 10.9 2,080 – – – Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 37,543 12.4 2,080 37,543 12.4 2,080 – – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 24,719 8.8 2,068 24,719 8.8 2,068 – – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 25,160 7.0 2,041 25,160 7.0 2,041 – – – Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 28,523 .3 2,080 28,523 .3 2,080 – – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 33,011 6.2 2,080 32,671 6.2 2,080 – – – Welders and cutters......................................... 30,542 19.4 2,054 30,542 19.4 2,054 – – – Assemblers.................................................. 28,778 3.1 2,080 28,778 3.1 2,080 – – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 27,220 5.2 2,080 27,220 5.2 2,080 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 34,557 9.9 2,042 34,700 12.6 2,078 34,097 11.4 1,929 Truck drivers............................................... 39,649 9.1 2,080 39,649 9.1 2,080 – – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 29,222 11.5 2,080 29,222 11.5 2,080 – – – Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, n.e.c.... 35,777 16.0 2,080 – – – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 27,940 7.4 2,048 27,706 8.1 2,053 30,717 5.9 1,986 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 16,393 9.5 1,545 – – – – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 25,487 5.7 2,022 26,054 6.0 2,054 – – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 23,954 4.3 2,080 23,954 4.3 2,080 – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 29,181 8.0 2,080 29,181 8.0 2,080 – – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 26,156 4.7 2,080 26,156 4.7 2,080 – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 25,326 15.6 2,080 24,100 17.9 2,080 – – – Service............................................................. 25,454 5.5 2,012 20,615 3.7 1,998 34,511 9.1 2,038 Protective service............................................ 31,834 18.8 2,102 19,395 6.3 2,080 41,056 14.6 2,118 Police and detectives, public service....................... $44,060 6.1 2,080 – – – $44,060 6.1 2,080 Guards and police, except public service.................... 19,519 7.9 2,080 $19,214 6.7 2,080 – – – Food service.................................................. 18,946 3.5 1,954 18,636 3.7 2,012 – – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 7,124 22.0 2,015 7,124 22.0 2,015 – – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 7,841 26.2 1,996 7,841 26.2 1,996 – – – Other food service........................................... 21,149 3.8 1,942 21,410 4.6 2,012 – – – Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 26,159 11.0 1,821 30,418 9.2 2,067 – – – Cooks....................................................... 22,898 6.4 2,053 22,898 8.3 2,046 – – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 17,930 2.6 1,868 16,726 4.6 1,937 – – – Health service................................................ 22,052 3.9 2,035 20,823 4.1 2,028 29,056 10.1 2,079 Health aides, except nursing................................ 26,439 5.4 2,071 22,822 5.5 2,066 – – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 20,339 4.0 2,021 20,357 4.2 2,019 – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 25,124 5.8 2,061 24,884 7.0 2,059 25,563 10.6 2,065 Maids and housemen.......................................... 18,831 7.8 2,080 18,831 7.8 2,080 – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 25,824 5.7 2,059 26,003 6.5 2,054 25,563 10.6 2,065 Personal service.............................................. 25,875 13.8 1,729 19,307 1.8 1,629 37,338 9.6 1,903 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, Cleveland-Akron, OH, December 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................................................................... $18.47 2.3 $17.34 3.0 $22.65 2.9 All excluding sales............................................... 18.57 2.2 17.37 2.9 22.66 2.9 White collar........................................................ 22.60 2.6 21.32 3.7 26.14 4.0 1....................................................... 8.39 3.1 8.38 3.4 8.48 11.0 2....................................................... 10.31 6.9 9.94 5.9 11.72 19.6 3....................................................... 12.11 2.6 11.66 2.1 13.61 5.9 4....................................................... 13.41 2.0 13.10 1.9 15.03 7.6 5....................................................... 16.95 6.2 16.90 7.3 17.11 11.8 6....................................................... 17.75 2.3 17.87 2.8 17.15 3.5 7....................................................... 22.77 4.8 22.07 4.2 24.28 10.2 8....................................................... 24.49 2.9 22.48 4.6 27.88 4.5 9....................................................... 28.47 3.6 25.77 2.7 31.62 5.3 10........................................................ 32.55 7.9 34.16 10.0 29.36 12.1 11........................................................ 35.15 4.9 35.54 5.5 33.38 9.2 12........................................................ 48.37 6.6 49.98 8.3 43.80 3.2 13........................................................ 56.57 3.6 56.42 4.6 – – 14........................................................ 62.08 13.0 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 26.28 11.0 25.05 13.1 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 23.32 2.6 22.12 3.7 26.17 4.0 1....................................................... 9.26 5.0 9.63 6.1 8.48 11.0 2....................................................... 11.34 6.5 11.18 2.4 11.72 19.6 3....................................................... 12.33 2.5 11.96 2.2 13.43 6.0 4....................................................... 13.57 2.3 13.26 2.3 15.03 7.6 5....................................................... 16.29 4.8 15.85 3.6 17.11 11.8 6....................................................... 17.62 2.2 17.74 2.7 17.06 3.5 7....................................................... 22.25 4.8 21.23 2.6 24.28 10.2 8....................................................... 24.49 2.9 21.67 3.7 28.14 4.9 9....................................................... 28.41 3.6 25.60 2.8 31.62 5.3 10........................................................ 32.59 7.9 34.23 10.1 29.36 12.1 11........................................................ 35.15 4.9 35.54 5.5 33.38 9.2 12........................................................ 48.37 6.6 49.98 8.3 43.80 3.2 13........................................................ 56.57 3.6 56.42 4.6 – – 14........................................................ 62.08 13.0 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 27.06 11.6 25.62 13.9 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.19 2.3 23.26 3.0 30.65 4.3 Professional specialty.......................................... 28.21 2.6 25.34 2.9 31.17 4.7 5....................................................... 16.46 13.9 – – 18.41 10.2 6....................................................... 17.39 6.9 16.46 6.2 – – 7....................................................... 24.27 8.7 21.64 3.4 28.41 11.7 8....................................................... 26.13 2.8 21.59 4.2 29.45 7.5 9....................................................... 29.69 4.5 24.47 1.4 32.81 5.4 10........................................................ 28.40 5.9 29.72 4.7 26.50 12.1 11........................................................ 32.21 6.0 33.21 6.1 28.25 13.0 12........................................................ 42.02 5.1 42.55 6.3 – – 13........................................................ $48.56 6.1 $44.49 1.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 30.97 6.0 25.69 8.7 – – Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 31.65 2.4 31.66 2.5 – – 9....................................................... 27.95 2.3 27.95 2.3 – – 11........................................................ 36.14 3.5 36.14 3.5 – – Industrial engineers........................................ 31.61 8.0 31.61 8.0 – – Mechanical engineers........................................ 26.67 .0 26.67 .0 – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 31.88 1.6 31.88 1.6 – – 9....................................................... 28.66 2.2 28.66 2.2 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 28.27 5.9 29.30 5.6 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 28.67 8.1 30.06 8.4 – – Natural scientists............................................ 27.08 7.0 27.67 8.2 – – Chemists, except biochemists................................ 26.94 10.2 26.94 10.2 – – Health related................................................ 24.64 1.6 22.67 1.8 $36.20 4.9 7....................................................... 22.53 2.0 22.53 2.0 – – 8....................................................... 21.64 1.7 22.01 1.2 – – 9....................................................... 23.36 1.2 23.17 1.3 24.45 .9 10........................................................ 29.69 8.1 – – – – 11........................................................ 24.33 13.0 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 37.33 23.9 22.20 1.7 – – Physicians.................................................. 40.13 22.9 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 39.38 22.8 – – – – Registered nurses........................................... 23.13 2.2 22.80 2.2 25.41 6.9 7....................................................... 22.72 1.1 22.72 1.1 – – 8....................................................... 21.87 2.2 22.34 1.8 – – 9....................................................... 23.38 .5 23.17 .5 24.45 .9 Respiratory therapists...................................... 20.79 .2 20.79 .2 – – Physical therapists......................................... 23.30 6.4 23.30 6.4 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 39.94 7.2 36.83 6.8 40.95 8.9 13........................................................ 51.96 9.9 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 31.92 4.9 20.82 17.7 33.64 4.8 5....................................................... 15.52 32.9 – – – – 7....................................................... 34.45 8.8 26.33 11.5 36.67 3.0 8....................................................... 29.66 8.7 – – – – 9....................................................... 34.18 4.9 – – 35.04 4.6 Prekindergarten and kindergarten............................ 21.47 19.2 – – – – 9....................................................... 35.73 5.9 – – – – Elementary school teachers.................................. 34.26 4.0 – – 36.08 2.9 9....................................................... 34.12 6.2 – – 36.11 3.5 Secondary school teachers................................... 34.86 5.1 26.11 .5 – – 9....................................................... 35.61 4.6 – – – – Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 33.68 4.0 – – 32.95 2.3 9....................................................... 32.90 3.2 – – 32.93 3.2 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 28.50 16.4 – – 30.09 17.2 Librarians.................................................. 28.50 16.4 – – 30.09 17.2 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... $19.43 4.0 $15.86 5.8 $20.79 2.6 5....................................................... 16.84 4.0 – – – – 6....................................................... 16.45 13.7 – – – – 7....................................................... 19.79 7.7 17.27 4.4 – – 9....................................................... 19.27 9.2 – – – – Social workers.............................................. 19.43 4.0 15.86 5.8 20.79 2.6 5....................................................... 16.84 4.0 – – – – 6....................................................... 16.45 13.7 – – – – 7....................................................... 19.79 7.7 17.27 4.4 – – 9....................................................... 19.27 9.2 – – – – Lawyers and judges............................................ 35.52 17.1 – – – – Lawyers..................................................... 35.52 17.1 – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 21.72 6.2 21.71 6.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.66 10.9 21.66 10.9 – – Professional, n.e.c......................................... 18.21 6.3 18.13 6.5 – – Technical....................................................... 19.56 4.6 19.44 5.0 20.81 10.2 4....................................................... 13.22 7.2 13.22 7.2 – – 5....................................................... 16.80 4.1 16.88 4.1 – – 6....................................................... 17.32 1.8 17.31 1.9 – – 7....................................................... 21.41 6.5 22.05 7.6 19.19 3.8 8....................................................... 22.16 9.3 22.07 9.9 – – 9....................................................... 27.42 18.4 27.45 18.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 18.92 12.5 16.75 7.2 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 16.87 6.5 16.87 6.5 – – Radiological technicians.................................... 19.99 12.6 21.08 14.1 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 17.44 1.8 17.23 1.7 – – 5....................................................... 15.74 4.1 15.74 4.1 – – 6....................................................... 17.64 1.9 17.63 1.9 – – 7....................................................... 18.85 3.6 – – – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 18.07 25.7 17.96 26.7 – – 5....................................................... 15.39 4.6 15.39 4.6 – – Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 22.22 9.1 – – – – Drafters.................................................... 21.18 10.3 21.18 10.3 – – Chemical technicians........................................ 20.98 9.8 20.98 9.8 – – Computer programmers........................................ 25.29 24.3 – – – – Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 18.25 12.9 18.06 18.3 18.72 9.5 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 31.66 4.9 32.43 5.3 28.30 8.8 5....................................................... 15.10 11.4 17.56 9.3 – – 6....................................................... 19.27 5.6 19.23 6.1 – – 7....................................................... 22.42 7.0 22.94 8.1 21.10 11.6 8....................................................... 21.05 7.3 21.73 10.7 – – 9....................................................... 25.75 4.6 26.35 5.5 23.20 3.5 10........................................................ 34.75 7.8 33.07 8.1 – – 11........................................................ 39.14 7.7 38.56 9.4 – – 12........................................................ $51.61 7.7 $53.80 9.4 $45.44 2.9 13........................................................ 62.45 5.2 62.68 6.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 33.73 21.7 33.73 21.7 – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 36.94 6.3 38.44 7.0 31.34 8.7 7....................................................... 22.05 10.6 20.22 9.6 – – 8....................................................... 21.58 11.7 22.65 12.5 – – 9....................................................... 26.94 4.4 28.13 4.5 23.13 4.5 10........................................................ 36.85 10.9 – – – – 11........................................................ 39.14 7.7 38.56 9.4 – – 12........................................................ 51.61 7.7 53.80 9.4 45.44 2.9 13........................................................ 62.45 5.2 62.68 6.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 37.95 34.1 37.95 34.1 – – Administrators and officials, public administration......... 23.60 13.5 – – 23.60 13.5 Financial managers.......................................... 45.72 11.8 45.76 11.8 – – 9....................................................... 27.91 7.7 27.91 7.7 – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 38.06 8.6 40.52 7.4 – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 41.28 6.3 28.85 15.5 47.18 3.3 12........................................................ 45.80 2.8 – – 45.80 2.8 Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 29.10 10.4 32.98 7.3 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 35.06 9.7 35.20 9.8 – – 9....................................................... 26.75 7.2 27.03 7.2 – – 12........................................................ 50.43 7.4 50.43 7.4 – – Management related............................................ 22.35 2.7 22.65 2.9 20.57 6.7 5....................................................... 17.85 8.0 17.56 9.3 – – 6....................................................... 18.30 2.4 18.17 2.4 – – 7....................................................... 22.55 9.2 24.03 9.9 19.15 3.8 9....................................................... 23.44 7.5 23.44 8.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 26.67 13.4 26.67 13.4 – – Accountants and auditors.................................... 20.68 5.9 20.46 6.3 – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 22.28 9.2 22.42 9.5 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 22.10 5.9 22.28 7.1 – – 9....................................................... 22.93 7.1 22.78 8.6 – – Sales............................................................. 16.94 7.6 16.91 7.7 – – 1....................................................... 7.92 4.5 7.92 4.5 – – 2....................................................... 8.06 9.4 8.06 9.4 – – 3....................................................... 10.12 9.8 9.38 2.1 – – 4....................................................... 12.07 9.7 12.07 9.7 – – 5....................................................... 18.54 13.2 18.54 13.2 – – 6....................................................... 19.19 11.7 19.02 11.9 – – 8....................................................... 24.53 8.1 24.92 8.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 22.31 23.5 22.31 23.5 – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 21.80 11.9 21.93 12.5 – – Sales, other business services.............................. 25.08 12.3 25.08 12.3 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 10.26 12.4 10.26 12.4 – – Cashiers.................................................... 9.14 7.4 8.86 7.4 – – 1....................................................... $8.09 8.4 $8.09 8.4 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 14.23 1.7 14.00 1.8 $14.98 4.4 1....................................................... 9.26 5.0 9.63 6.1 8.48 11.0 2....................................................... 11.34 6.5 11.18 2.4 11.72 19.6 3....................................................... 12.30 2.5 11.90 2.2 13.43 6.0 4....................................................... 13.65 2.6 13.30 2.8 15.03 7.6 5....................................................... 16.27 4.5 16.09 4.4 17.13 17.3 6....................................................... 16.92 4.3 17.61 6.3 15.57 2.1 7....................................................... 18.74 2.9 17.54 3.3 20.68 3.7 Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.15 10.4 14.15 10.4 – – Supervisors, general office................................. 21.37 8.0 20.75 9.9 – – Secretaries................................................. 15.28 3.3 15.50 3.6 14.76 6.5 3....................................................... 15.06 8.7 – – – – 4....................................................... 13.98 3.7 14.05 4.5 13.83 7.3 5....................................................... 16.26 5.2 16.64 5.5 – – 6....................................................... 18.23 7.5 18.59 7.4 – – 7....................................................... 18.05 5.3 18.30 4.0 – – Interviewers................................................ 11.89 3.9 11.89 3.9 – – Receptionists............................................... 12.02 5.4 11.43 3.5 – – 3....................................................... 12.72 8.1 11.89 6.4 – – Order clerks................................................ 14.00 4.5 14.00 4.5 – – Library clerks.............................................. 11.17 7.9 – – 11.22 8.8 1....................................................... 7.19 1.3 – – 7.24 1.2 2....................................................... 12.24 17.6 – – 12.24 17.6 4....................................................... 13.00 15.9 – – 13.63 20.2 File clerks................................................. 10.94 3.4 10.94 3.4 – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 12.73 8.0 12.95 9.3 – – 4....................................................... 13.58 7.2 13.58 7.2 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.10 4.8 14.21 5.2 – – 3....................................................... 13.25 7.1 13.29 10.0 – – 4....................................................... 14.36 7.6 14.36 7.6 – – Payroll and timekeeping clerks.............................. 14.80 5.7 14.26 5.4 – – Billing clerks.............................................. 12.76 2.0 12.76 2.0 – – Telephone operators......................................... 10.69 1.0 10.69 1.0 – – Mail clerks, except postal service.......................... 9.89 8.2 9.89 8.2 – – Dispatchers................................................. 11.36 24.3 – – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 13.31 4.6 13.31 4.6 – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 12.59 12.6 12.59 12.6 – – Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 13.49 9.7 13.49 9.7 – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 16.01 15.4 16.01 15.4 – – Bill and account collectors................................. 13.41 7.9 13.41 7.9 – – General office clerks....................................... 14.97 4.3 13.82 6.3 17.42 6.4 4....................................................... 13.86 5.9 14.72 4.8 – – Teachers' aides............................................. 13.56 14.2 – – 13.70 13.7 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 13.59 8.1 13.66 10.0 – – 2....................................................... $12.62 4.4 – – – – 4....................................................... 12.18 3.6 $12.18 3.6 – – Blue collar......................................................... 15.76 3.0 15.59 3.3 $17.49 1.0 1....................................................... 10.39 6.2 10.36 6.4 – – 2....................................................... 12.57 4.2 12.12 4.4 – – 3....................................................... 15.07 2.4 15.08 2.6 14.92 5.7 4....................................................... 16.12 6.7 16.10 7.0 16.58 5.5 5....................................................... 15.71 3.5 15.60 3.8 16.69 3.0 6....................................................... 18.47 4.3 18.09 5.5 19.88 2.3 7....................................................... 21.08 4.0 21.39 4.7 19.30 1.6 9....................................................... 29.29 8.6 29.34 9.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.79 15.5 14.79 15.5 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.72 4.9 20.04 5.9 18.05 2.8 4....................................................... 13.91 7.6 14.04 7.8 – – 5....................................................... 16.01 5.9 15.92 7.3 16.35 4.1 6....................................................... 18.80 6.0 18.36 8.6 19.88 2.3 7....................................................... 21.57 3.5 22.11 4.1 18.57 5.2 9....................................................... 29.29 8.6 29.34 9.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 18.52 14.1 18.52 14.1 – – Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 16.86 34.7 – – – – Automobile mechanics........................................ 18.60 2.7 – – – – Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 18.81 6.3 – – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 21.80 10.6 21.82 10.8 – – 7....................................................... 25.63 3.8 25.75 3.9 – – Machinery maintenance....................................... 12.47 5.7 – – – – Millwrights................................................. 24.85 4.8 24.85 4.8 – – 7....................................................... 27.20 3.7 27.20 3.7 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 17.97 4.7 17.61 6.2 – – 7....................................................... 20.07 5.9 19.90 7.7 – – Electricians................................................ 24.54 7.2 25.25 7.1 – – 7....................................................... 24.61 7.9 25.42 7.8 – – Painters, construction and maintenance...................... 22.71 15.4 – – – – Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters...................... 21.18 8.0 21.80 9.2 – – 7....................................................... 23.34 10.0 24.47 11.1 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 19.74 5.3 19.74 5.3 – – Tool and die makers......................................... 21.72 5.0 21.72 5.0 – – 7....................................................... 22.70 1.9 22.70 1.9 – – Inspectors, testers, and graders............................ 16.39 10.7 15.39 10.6 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.27 1.8 14.25 1.8 – – 1....................................................... 9.93 4.8 9.93 4.8 – – 2....................................................... 11.35 6.7 11.35 6.7 – – 3....................................................... 15.69 1.6 15.69 1.6 – – 4....................................................... 16.30 6.0 16.30 6.0 – – 5....................................................... $14.99 3.6 $14.99 3.6 – – 6....................................................... 17.50 1.6 17.50 1.6 – – 7....................................................... 18.02 9.3 17.84 9.8 – – Punching and stamping press operators....................... 12.08 11.0 12.08 11.0 – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 14.59 2.5 14.59 2.5 – – Numerical control machine operators......................... 17.94 10.9 17.94 10.9 – – Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 18.05 12.4 18.05 12.4 – – 3....................................................... 16.81 6.3 16.81 6.3 – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 11.26 10.5 11.26 10.5 – – Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators............... 8.47 2.1 8.47 2.1 – – 1....................................................... 8.47 2.1 8.47 2.1 – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 12.33 5.3 12.33 5.3 – – Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 13.71 .3 13.71 .3 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 15.22 6.6 15.06 6.7 – – Welders and cutters......................................... 14.87 19.9 14.87 19.9 – – Assemblers.................................................. 13.78 3.3 13.78 3.3 – – 4....................................................... 12.71 4.4 12.71 4.4 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 13.09 5.2 13.09 5.2 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.81 9.4 16.67 12.6 $17.18 9.1 2....................................................... 15.46 6.4 – – – – 3....................................................... 16.17 11.4 16.29 16.0 – – 4....................................................... 16.93 16.8 16.96 18.3 – – 5....................................................... 18.07 5.5 18.48 7.3 – – Truck drivers............................................... 18.95 9.2 19.02 9.1 – – 4....................................................... 19.92 8.9 19.92 8.9 – – 5....................................................... 18.33 8.5 18.56 9.2 – – Bus drivers................................................. 17.27 2.0 – – 17.34 2.0 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 14.05 11.5 14.05 11.5 – – 3....................................................... 16.95 21.1 16.95 21.1 – – 4....................................................... 13.49 12.3 13.49 12.3 – – Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, n.e.c.... 17.20 16.0 – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.70 6.6 12.53 7.0 15.43 5.9 1....................................................... 10.71 10.5 10.69 10.7 – – 2....................................................... 13.77 5.8 13.77 5.8 – – 3....................................................... 13.38 7.9 13.16 9.3 – – 4....................................................... 14.42 10.7 13.46 11.9 – – Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 10.19 4.8 9.89 3.9 – – Production helpers.......................................... 15.62 10.8 15.62 10.8 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 10.70 7.5 10.69 7.8 – – 1....................................................... 8.79 14.1 8.79 14.1 – – 3....................................................... 11.95 11.2 12.08 13.3 – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 11.52 4.3 11.52 4.3 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 12.36 8.1 12.36 8.1 – – 2....................................................... 17.14 1.3 17.14 1.3 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. $12.55 4.7 $12.55 4.7 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 11.88 14.9 11.30 17.1 – – 1....................................................... 8.80 4.7 – – – – Service............................................................. 11.06 3.1 8.94 2.2 $16.05 7.5 1....................................................... 7.47 1.9 6.95 2.2 10.31 6.3 2....................................................... 8.39 3.1 7.76 5.8 12.21 6.8 3....................................................... 10.69 4.5 10.13 2.9 12.85 5.7 4....................................................... 12.64 5.2 11.62 3.2 14.12 7.8 5....................................................... 15.01 5.9 13.35 6.4 16.07 7.1 6....................................................... 18.08 12.8 – – – – 7....................................................... 21.13 6.8 – – 21.59 8.4 8....................................................... 23.63 4.2 – – 23.84 4.1 Protective service............................................ 14.79 17.9 9.33 6.4 19.32 11.7 3....................................................... 13.74 8.0 – – – – 4....................................................... 13.13 5.2 – – – – 5....................................................... 16.59 3.9 – – – – 7....................................................... 21.47 8.7 – – 21.56 9.0 Firefighting................................................ 18.13 9.1 – – 18.13 9.1 Police and detectives, public service....................... 21.08 6.2 – – 21.08 6.2 7....................................................... 20.88 1.3 – – 20.88 1.3 Protective service, n.e.c................................... 12.91 13.0 – – – – Food service.................................................. 7.58 3.3 7.02 3.3 11.73 3.7 1....................................................... 6.82 3.9 6.59 2.6 10.79 6.2 2....................................................... 5.62 7.6 5.14 6.9 – – 3....................................................... 9.59 2.4 9.59 2.4 – – 4....................................................... 11.12 4.1 – – – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.36 9.2 3.36 9.2 – – 1....................................................... 5.14 18.0 5.14 18.0 – – 2....................................................... 2.75 11.8 2.75 11.8 – – Bartenders.................................................. 4.18 3.9 4.18 3.9 – – 2....................................................... 4.11 6.0 4.11 6.0 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.59 14.6 3.59 14.6 – – 1....................................................... 5.25 20.3 5.25 20.3 – – 2....................................................... 2.73 23.3 2.73 23.3 – – Other food service........................................... 9.01 3.1 8.49 3.2 11.73 3.7 1....................................................... 7.12 3.9 6.87 2.6 10.79 6.2 2....................................................... 8.83 7.6 8.41 6.3 – – 3....................................................... 9.59 2.4 9.59 2.4 – – 4....................................................... 11.12 4.1 – – – – Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 13.97 5.8 14.72 9.2 – – Cooks....................................................... 10.63 6.9 10.29 9.2 – – 3....................................................... 9.47 2.8 9.47 2.8 – – Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 7.19 8.5 7.15 8.7 – – 1....................................................... 6.62 8.4 6.62 8.4 – – 2....................................................... 8.70 8.0 – – – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... $8.19 9.4 $7.58 8.3 $11.52 1.7 1....................................................... 7.55 10.0 7.12 7.2 – – 2....................................................... 9.15 9.8 8.40 8.3 – – Health service................................................ 10.73 3.0 10.17 3.0 13.93 9.1 2....................................................... 9.06 3.6 9.06 3.6 – – 3....................................................... 10.12 3.7 10.14 3.9 – – 4....................................................... 11.02 2.7 10.85 2.4 – – Health aides, except nursing................................ 12.37 3.9 10.62 4.3 14.90 5.7 4....................................................... 12.19 8.6 11.91 9.4 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.04 3.4 10.05 3.5 – – 3....................................................... 10.05 3.7 10.08 3.9 – – 4....................................................... 10.23 .7 10.23 .7 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 12.02 4.2 11.98 6.7 12.08 4.3 1....................................................... 9.59 8.6 8.89 6.7 – – 2....................................................... 13.01 8.3 13.33 12.9 12.69 10.4 3....................................................... 11.72 6.8 11.74 8.8 – – Maids and housemen.......................................... 9.00 7.5 9.00 7.5 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 12.32 3.9 12.54 6.2 12.08 4.3 1....................................................... 9.95 9.9 9.12 9.4 – – 2....................................................... 13.11 8.5 13.54 13.4 12.69 10.4 3....................................................... 11.95 6.9 12.44 9.4 – – Personal service.............................................. 12.78 11.9 10.01 3.9 17.35 12.1 1....................................................... 7.39 8.5 5.81 12.0 – – 2....................................................... 6.80 18.8 6.78 19.1 – – 3....................................................... 10.44 9.6 9.56 4.1 – – Early childhood teachers' assistants........................ 8.12 4.7 – – – – Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 16.77 6.8 – – – – Service, n.e.c.............................................. 8.21 8.5 7.95 10.5 – – 3....................................................... 9.85 12.5 9.85 12.5 – – 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, Cleveland-Akron, OH, December 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................................................................... $19.45 2.2 $18.34 2.9 $23.48 2.9 All excluding sales............................................... 19.47 2.1 18.28 2.8 23.49 2.9 White collar........................................................ 23.24 2.8 21.95 3.8 26.81 3.8 1....................................................... 9.69 5.6 9.69 5.6 – – 2....................................................... 11.03 7.3 10.56 6.6 13.15 16.8 3....................................................... 12.33 2.7 11.85 2.3 13.71 6.0 4....................................................... 13.57 2.2 13.26 2.1 15.12 7.8 5....................................................... 17.00 6.1 17.26 6.8 16.05 10.6 6....................................................... 17.80 2.6 17.92 3.1 17.23 3.5 7....................................................... 22.87 5.0 22.08 4.4 24.55 10.5 8....................................................... 24.61 3.1 22.51 4.9 27.93 4.5 9....................................................... 28.72 3.5 25.81 2.8 32.07 4.5 10........................................................ 33.13 8.2 34.16 10.0 30.43 14.3 11........................................................ 35.71 4.7 35.60 5.5 36.32 7.7 12........................................................ 48.37 6.6 49.98 8.3 43.80 3.2 13........................................................ 56.32 4.0 56.09 5.2 – – 14........................................................ 62.08 13.0 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 26.42 11.0 25.14 13.2 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 23.68 2.8 22.37 3.8 26.85 3.8 2....................................................... 11.67 5.5 11.22 2.4 13.15 16.8 3....................................................... 12.39 2.6 11.99 2.4 13.53 6.1 4....................................................... 13.69 2.4 13.37 2.4 15.12 7.8 5....................................................... 16.09 3.7 16.11 2.8 16.05 10.6 6....................................................... 17.66 2.4 17.79 3.0 17.13 3.5 7....................................................... 22.34 5.1 21.19 2.8 24.55 10.5 8....................................................... 24.62 3.1 21.64 4.0 28.19 5.0 9....................................................... 28.66 3.5 25.63 3.0 32.07 4.5 10........................................................ 33.17 8.3 34.23 10.1 30.43 14.3 11........................................................ 35.71 4.7 35.60 5.5 36.32 7.7 12........................................................ 48.37 6.6 49.98 8.3 43.80 3.2 13........................................................ 56.32 4.0 56.09 5.2 – – 14........................................................ 62.08 13.0 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 27.23 11.6 25.73 13.9 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.72 2.3 23.57 3.1 31.47 3.7 Professional specialty.......................................... 28.84 2.3 25.71 2.7 32.06 4.2 5....................................................... 15.41 9.7 – – – – 6....................................................... 17.30 7.5 16.25 6.8 – – 7....................................................... 24.51 9.5 21.55 3.7 28.91 12.2 8....................................................... 26.40 3.1 21.49 4.8 29.45 7.5 9....................................................... 30.23 4.2 24.50 1.5 33.41 4.4 10........................................................ 28.75 6.4 29.72 4.7 26.73 16.6 11........................................................ 33.04 5.6 33.27 6.2 31.89 11.5 12........................................................ 42.02 5.1 42.55 6.3 – – 13........................................................ 47.70 7.1 42.87 4.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... $31.25 6.1 $25.66 8.9 – – Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 31.65 2.4 31.66 2.5 – – 9....................................................... 27.95 2.3 27.95 2.3 – – 11........................................................ 36.14 3.5 36.14 3.5 – – Industrial engineers........................................ 31.61 8.0 31.61 8.0 – – Mechanical engineers........................................ 26.67 .0 26.67 .0 – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 31.88 1.6 31.88 1.6 – – 9....................................................... 28.66 2.2 28.66 2.2 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 28.27 5.9 29.30 5.6 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 28.67 8.1 30.06 8.4 – – Natural scientists............................................ 27.08 7.0 27.67 8.2 – – Chemists, except biochemists................................ 26.94 10.2 26.94 10.2 – – Health related................................................ 24.92 1.1 22.51 1.1 $37.51 5.5 7....................................................... 22.43 2.1 22.43 2.1 – – 8....................................................... 21.52 1.9 22.01 1.1 – – 9....................................................... 23.01 1.1 22.75 1.2 24.53 1.1 10........................................................ 29.69 8.1 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 37.33 23.9 22.20 1.7 – – Physicians.................................................. 39.38 22.8 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 39.38 22.8 – – – – Registered nurses........................................... 23.29 1.8 22.93 1.4 25.62 7.8 7....................................................... 22.59 1.3 22.59 1.3 – – 8....................................................... 21.73 2.2 – – – – 9....................................................... 23.17 .6 22.89 .7 24.53 1.1 Respiratory therapists...................................... 20.96 .7 20.96 .7 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 41.31 4.9 36.87 6.7 42.88 5.1 13........................................................ 51.96 9.9 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 33.38 3.2 22.27 15.3 34.99 2.7 7....................................................... 35.88 7.9 – – 37.83 3.1 8....................................................... 29.75 8.9 – – – – 9....................................................... 34.75 3.5 – – 35.63 2.8 Prekindergarten and kindergarten............................ 23.66 12.5 10.34 17.4 – – 9....................................................... 35.96 5.7 – – – – Elementary school teachers.................................. 34.51 3.9 – – 36.12 3.0 9....................................................... 34.30 6.0 – – – – Secondary school teachers................................... 34.92 5.0 26.24 .3 – – 9....................................................... 35.61 4.6 – – – – Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 35.70 2.8 – – 34.71 1.1 9....................................................... 34.15 .2 – – 34.15 .2 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 29.93 15.7 – – 31.80 15.8 Librarians.................................................. 29.93 15.7 – – 31.80 15.8 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 19.43 4.1 15.73 6.7 20.79 2.6 6....................................................... 16.25 15.1 – – – – 7....................................................... 19.79 7.7 17.27 4.4 – – 9....................................................... 19.27 9.2 – – – – Social workers.............................................. $19.43 4.1 $15.73 6.7 $20.79 2.6 6....................................................... 16.25 15.1 – – – – 7....................................................... 19.79 7.7 17.27 4.4 – – 9....................................................... 19.27 9.2 – – – – Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 21.64 6.3 21.62 6.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.52 11.2 21.52 11.2 – – Professional, n.e.c......................................... 17.86 7.0 17.78 7.1 – – Technical....................................................... 19.81 4.9 19.69 5.3 21.08 10.3 4....................................................... 13.22 7.5 13.22 7.5 – – 5....................................................... 16.87 4.2 16.96 4.2 – – 6....................................................... 17.36 2.3 17.34 2.6 – – 7....................................................... 21.52 6.6 22.11 7.8 – – 8....................................................... 22.30 9.5 22.12 10.0 – – 9....................................................... 27.42 18.4 27.45 18.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 18.95 12.5 16.76 7.3 – – Radiological technicians.................................... 20.13 18.1 – – – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 17.52 2.0 17.27 1.8 – – 5....................................................... 15.74 4.1 15.74 4.1 – – 6....................................................... 17.87 .9 17.87 1.0 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 18.95 39.5 18.84 41.9 – – Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 22.22 9.1 – – – – Drafters.................................................... 21.18 10.3 21.18 10.3 – – Chemical technicians........................................ 20.98 9.8 20.98 9.8 – – Computer programmers........................................ 25.29 24.3 – – – – Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 18.39 13.0 18.08 18.3 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 31.69 4.9 32.46 5.4 28.37 8.8 5....................................................... 15.08 11.7 17.69 9.8 – – 6....................................................... 19.27 5.6 19.23 6.1 – – 7....................................................... 22.47 7.0 22.94 8.1 21.24 12.2 8....................................................... 21.05 7.3 21.73 10.7 – – 9....................................................... 25.66 4.8 26.26 5.7 23.20 3.5 10........................................................ 34.75 7.8 33.07 8.1 – – 11........................................................ 39.14 7.7 38.56 9.4 – – 12........................................................ 51.61 7.7 53.80 9.4 45.44 2.9 13........................................................ 62.45 5.2 62.68 6.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 33.73 21.7 33.73 21.7 – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 36.95 6.3 38.44 7.0 31.38 8.8 7....................................................... 22.13 10.6 20.22 9.6 – – 8....................................................... 21.58 11.7 22.65 12.5 – – 9....................................................... 26.94 4.4 28.13 4.5 23.13 4.5 10........................................................ 36.85 10.9 – – – – 11........................................................ 39.14 7.7 38.56 9.4 – – 12........................................................ 51.61 7.7 53.80 9.4 45.44 2.9 13........................................................ $62.45 5.2 $62.68 6.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 37.95 34.1 37.95 34.1 – – Administrators and officials, public administration......... 23.60 13.5 – – $23.60 13.5 Financial managers.......................................... 45.72 11.8 45.76 11.8 – – 9....................................................... 27.91 7.7 27.91 7.7 – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 38.06 8.6 40.52 7.4 – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 41.28 6.3 28.85 15.5 47.18 3.3 12........................................................ 45.80 2.8 – – 45.80 2.8 Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 29.10 10.4 32.98 7.3 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 35.08 9.7 35.20 9.8 – – 9....................................................... 26.75 7.2 27.03 7.2 – – 12........................................................ 50.43 7.4 50.43 7.4 – – Management related............................................ 22.28 2.8 22.56 3.0 20.60 6.8 5....................................................... 17.98 8.3 17.69 9.8 – – 6....................................................... 18.30 2.4 18.17 2.4 – – 7....................................................... 22.59 9.3 24.03 9.9 – – 9....................................................... 23.09 7.9 23.05 8.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 26.67 13.4 26.67 13.4 – – Accountants and auditors.................................... 20.68 5.9 20.46 6.3 – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 22.46 9.7 22.54 9.8 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 21.76 5.8 21.87 6.9 – – 9....................................................... 22.16 6.0 21.80 7.0 – – Sales............................................................. 19.16 7.8 19.15 7.9 – – 4....................................................... 12.54 11.0 12.54 11.0 – – 5....................................................... 19.03 11.8 19.03 11.8 – – 6....................................................... 19.19 11.7 19.02 11.9 – – 8....................................................... 24.53 8.1 24.92 8.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 22.31 23.5 22.31 23.5 – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 21.80 11.9 21.93 12.5 – – Sales, other business services.............................. 25.08 12.3 25.08 12.3 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 11.95 15.1 11.95 15.1 – – Cashiers.................................................... 10.64 8.9 – – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 14.42 1.7 14.09 1.8 15.54 3.9 2....................................................... 11.67 5.5 11.22 2.4 13.15 16.8 3....................................................... 12.36 2.6 11.93 2.4 13.53 6.1 4....................................................... 13.76 2.6 13.39 2.8 15.12 7.8 5....................................................... 16.34 4.6 16.15 4.4 17.25 17.5 6....................................................... 16.97 4.4 17.67 6.4 15.61 2.1 7....................................................... 18.68 2.9 17.37 3.2 20.68 3.7 Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.28 10.7 14.28 10.7 – – Supervisors, general office................................. 21.69 7.3 21.15 9.3 – – Secretaries................................................. 15.28 3.3 15.50 3.7 14.78 6.5 4....................................................... 13.94 3.8 14.00 4.7 13.83 7.3 5....................................................... 16.39 5.5 16.80 6.1 – – 6....................................................... $18.23 7.5 $18.59 7.4 – – 7....................................................... 17.70 5.8 – – – – Receptionists............................................... 12.14 5.6 11.52 3.5 – – 3....................................................... 12.73 8.3 11.87 6.6 – – Order clerks................................................ 14.00 4.5 14.00 4.5 – – Library clerks.............................................. 13.58 7.4 – – $14.05 7.7 File clerks................................................. 10.94 3.4 10.94 3.4 – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 12.78 8.1 12.95 9.3 – – 4....................................................... 13.58 7.2 13.58 7.2 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.22 5.0 14.26 5.3 – – 3....................................................... 13.48 7.6 – – – – 4....................................................... 14.36 7.6 14.36 7.6 – – Payroll and timekeeping clerks.............................. 16.42 6.8 16.27 9.4 – – Billing clerks.............................................. 13.00 1.4 13.00 1.4 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 13.31 4.6 13.31 4.6 – – Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 13.49 9.7 13.49 9.7 – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 16.01 15.4 16.01 15.4 – – Bill and account collectors................................. 13.41 7.9 13.41 7.9 – – General office clerks....................................... 15.06 4.3 13.88 6.4 17.57 6.7 4....................................................... 13.90 6.0 14.80 4.8 – – Teachers' aides............................................. 14.25 11.9 – – – – Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 13.70 8.6 13.78 10.5 – – Blue collar......................................................... 16.12 3.1 15.98 3.4 17.66 1.4 1....................................................... 10.95 6.6 10.94 6.9 – – 2....................................................... 12.60 4.3 12.15 4.5 – – 3....................................................... 15.19 3.1 15.24 3.3 – – 4....................................................... 16.16 6.8 16.13 7.1 – – 5....................................................... 15.72 3.6 15.60 3.9 16.79 3.4 6....................................................... 18.47 4.3 18.09 5.5 19.88 2.3 7....................................................... 21.08 4.0 21.39 4.7 19.30 1.6 9....................................................... 29.29 8.6 29.34 9.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.97 9.3 17.97 9.3 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.84 5.0 20.19 6.0 18.05 2.8 4....................................................... 14.07 7.7 14.22 7.9 – – 5....................................................... 16.01 5.9 15.92 7.3 16.35 4.1 6....................................................... 18.80 6.0 18.36 8.6 19.88 2.3 7....................................................... 21.57 3.5 22.11 4.1 18.57 5.2 9....................................................... 29.29 8.6 29.34 9.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.26 11.9 20.26 11.9 – – Automobile mechanics........................................ 18.60 2.7 – – – – Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 18.81 6.3 – – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 21.80 10.6 21.82 10.8 – – 7....................................................... 25.63 3.8 25.75 3.9 – – Millwrights................................................. 24.85 4.8 24.85 4.8 – – 7....................................................... $27.20 3.7 $27.20 3.7 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 17.97 4.7 17.61 6.2 – – 7....................................................... 20.07 5.9 19.90 7.7 – – Electricians................................................ 24.54 7.2 25.25 7.1 – – 7....................................................... 24.61 7.9 25.42 7.8 – – Painters, construction and maintenance...................... 22.71 15.4 – – – – Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters...................... 21.18 8.0 21.80 9.2 – – 7....................................................... 23.34 10.0 24.47 11.1 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 19.74 5.3 19.74 5.3 – – Tool and die makers......................................... 21.72 5.0 21.72 5.0 – – 7....................................................... 22.70 1.9 22.70 1.9 – – Inspectors, testers, and graders............................ 16.39 10.7 15.39 10.6 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.44 2.0 14.42 2.0 – – 1....................................................... 10.00 4.8 10.00 4.8 – – 2....................................................... 11.37 6.8 11.37 6.8 – – 3....................................................... 15.83 1.3 15.83 1.3 – – 4....................................................... 16.30 6.0 16.30 6.0 – – 5....................................................... 14.99 3.6 14.99 3.6 – – 6....................................................... 17.50 1.6 17.50 1.6 – – 7....................................................... 18.02 9.3 17.84 9.8 – – Punching and stamping press operators....................... 12.08 11.0 12.08 11.0 – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 14.59 2.5 14.59 2.5 – – Numerical control machine operators......................... 17.94 10.9 17.94 10.9 – – Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 18.05 12.4 18.05 12.4 – – 3....................................................... 16.81 6.3 16.81 6.3 – – Molding and casting machine operators....................... 11.95 9.1 11.95 9.1 – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 12.33 5.3 12.33 5.3 – – Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 13.71 .3 13.71 .3 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 15.87 6.2 15.71 6.2 – – Welders and cutters......................................... 14.87 19.9 14.87 19.9 – – Assemblers.................................................. 13.84 3.1 13.84 3.1 – – 4....................................................... 12.71 4.4 12.71 4.4 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 13.09 5.2 13.09 5.2 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.92 9.9 16.70 12.6 $17.67 11.0 2....................................................... 15.66 7.3 – – – – 3....................................................... 16.29 16.0 16.29 16.0 – – 4....................................................... 16.98 17.0 16.98 18.4 – – 5....................................................... 18.23 5.7 18.48 7.3 – – Truck drivers............................................... 19.06 9.1 19.06 9.1 – – 4....................................................... 19.92 8.9 19.92 8.9 – – 5....................................................... 18.56 9.2 18.56 9.2 – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 14.05 11.5 14.05 11.5 – – 3....................................................... 16.95 21.1 16.95 21.1 – – 4....................................................... 13.49 12.3 13.49 12.3 – – Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, n.e.c.... $17.20 16.0 – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 13.64 7.4 $13.49 8.0 $15.46 5.9 1....................................................... 12.29 16.7 12.27 17.0 – – 2....................................................... 13.86 5.8 13.86 5.8 – – 3....................................................... 13.54 8.0 13.35 9.5 – – 4....................................................... 14.41 10.8 13.40 12.1 – – Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 10.61 3.5 – – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 12.61 5.1 12.68 5.4 – – 3....................................................... 12.48 11.0 12.74 13.5 – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 11.52 4.3 11.52 4.3 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 14.03 8.0 14.03 8.0 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 12.57 4.7 12.57 4.7 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 12.18 15.6 11.59 17.9 – – Service............................................................. 12.65 5.6 10.32 4.0 16.93 8.5 1....................................................... 9.56 4.7 8.82 4.6 – – 2....................................................... 9.49 5.8 9.00 4.9 12.78 15.7 3....................................................... 10.76 4.8 10.23 3.2 12.92 5.9 4....................................................... 12.77 6.0 11.77 3.8 14.37 7.6 5....................................................... 14.98 6.3 13.35 6.4 16.14 7.9 6....................................................... 18.08 12.8 – – – – 7....................................................... 21.27 6.7 – – 21.76 8.2 8....................................................... 23.63 4.3 – – – – Protective service............................................ 15.15 17.8 9.32 6.3 19.39 12.3 4....................................................... 13.18 5.3 – – – – 7....................................................... 21.65 8.6 – – 21.74 8.8 Police and detectives, public service....................... 21.18 6.1 – – 21.18 6.1 7....................................................... 21.07 1.5 – – 21.07 1.5 Guards and police, except public service.................... 9.38 7.9 9.24 6.7 – – Food service.................................................. 9.70 4.1 9.26 4.1 – – 1....................................................... 9.04 6.4 8.54 4.3 – – 2....................................................... 6.35 13.5 5.53 13.4 – – 3....................................................... 9.94 2.8 9.94 2.8 – – 4....................................................... 10.65 8.1 – – – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.53 23.4 3.53 23.4 – – 2....................................................... 2.86 22.0 2.86 22.0 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.93 28.8 3.93 28.8 – – Other food service........................................... 10.89 4.2 10.64 4.9 – – 1....................................................... 8.94 6.9 8.39 4.3 – – 3....................................................... 9.94 2.8 9.94 2.8 – – 4....................................................... 10.65 8.1 – – – – Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 14.37 7.8 14.72 9.2 – – Cooks....................................................... 11.16 5.5 11.19 7.1 – – 3....................................................... 9.69 2.5 9.69 2.5 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 9.60 2.3 8.63 3.4 – – 1....................................................... $8.95 7.8 – – – – Health service................................................ 10.83 3.6 $10.27 3.6 $13.98 10.1 3....................................................... 10.09 4.1 10.12 4.3 – – 4....................................................... 10.83 2.6 10.83 2.6 – – Health aides, except nursing................................ 12.77 5.3 11.05 5.4 – – 4....................................................... 12.02 10.2 12.02 10.4 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.06 3.4 10.08 3.5 – – 3....................................................... 10.03 4.1 10.05 4.4 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 12.19 5.7 12.08 7.0 12.38 10.5 1....................................................... 10.01 7.6 9.25 7.2 – – 2....................................................... 13.09 10.9 13.12 13.7 – – 3....................................................... 11.94 5.8 11.74 8.8 – – Maids and housemen.......................................... 9.05 7.8 9.05 7.8 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 12.54 5.6 12.66 6.2 12.38 10.5 1....................................................... 10.56 7.4 9.76 9.4 – – 2....................................................... 13.22 11.2 13.33 14.4 – – 3....................................................... 12.21 5.8 12.44 9.4 – – Personal service.............................................. 14.97 12.4 11.85 2.8 19.62 9.6 4....................................................... 15.63 15.1 – – – – 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, Cleveland-Akron, OH, December 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................................................................... $10.43 4.2 $9.34 3.1 $14.99 9.5 All excluding sales............................................... 10.73 4.2 9.56 3.0 14.99 9.5 White collar........................................................ 14.83 6.5 13.83 4.9 17.73 13.4 1....................................................... 7.73 3.4 7.58 2.3 8.48 11.0 2....................................................... 7.87 4.8 7.51 5.5 8.75 9.4 3....................................................... 10.51 5.7 10.48 6.1 – – 4....................................................... 11.14 5.1 11.19 5.4 9.85 3.9 5....................................................... 16.53 23.6 10.99 16.9 – – 6....................................................... 17.15 1.3 17.33 1.1 – – 7....................................................... 20.17 4.8 21.86 1.5 13.28 18.7 8....................................................... 21.66 2.3 21.99 1.4 – – 9....................................................... 24.66 4.0 25.12 3.2 24.04 8.5 Not able to be leveled.................................... 12.87 29.5 – – – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 17.70 5.4 17.69 4.2 17.73 13.4 1....................................................... 8.42 11.0 – – 8.48 11.0 2....................................................... 8.90 8.3 9.77 5.7 8.75 9.4 3....................................................... 11.55 2.7 11.64 3.1 – – 4....................................................... 11.77 7.5 11.87 8.2 9.85 3.9 5....................................................... 17.84 22.3 11.93 21.2 – – 6....................................................... 17.15 1.3 17.33 1.1 – – 7....................................................... 20.17 4.8 21.86 1.5 13.28 18.7 8....................................................... 21.66 2.3 21.99 1.4 – – 9....................................................... 24.66 4.0 25.12 3.2 24.04 8.5 Not able to be leveled.................................... 12.87 29.5 – – – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 20.74 3.6 20.18 2.4 21.67 7.5 Professional specialty.......................................... 21.84 3.9 21.84 4.5 21.84 7.4 5....................................................... 18.46 24.1 – – – – 6....................................................... 18.68 7.5 – – – – 7....................................................... 20.80 7.3 22.66 3.7 – – 8....................................................... 22.14 2.0 22.14 2.0 – – 9....................................................... 24.20 3.7 24.33 1.5 24.04 8.5 Health related................................................ 23.42 4.9 23.35 5.3 – – 7....................................................... 23.25 2.9 23.25 2.9 – – 8....................................................... 22.00 2.1 22.00 2.1 – – 9....................................................... 24.46 1.3 24.50 1.5 – – Registered nurses........................................... 22.51 4.9 22.34 5.3 – – 7....................................................... 23.55 3.1 23.55 3.1 – – 8....................................................... 22.35 3.2 22.35 3.2 – – 9....................................................... 24.01 1.4 23.97 1.7 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 20.49 13.3 13.57 29.1 22.18 7.3 9....................................................... 25.18 10.7 21.50 1.9 – – Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 22.73 10.9 – – 22.70 12.2 9....................................................... 25.21 11.5 – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... $16.75 4.9 – – $17.25 0.0 Librarians.................................................. 16.75 4.9 – – 17.25 .0 Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 16.59 3.3 $16.74 3.1 – – 5....................................................... 15.26 9.7 15.26 9.7 – – 6....................................................... 17.22 .8 17.22 .8 – – Radiological technicians.................................... 19.36 11.0 19.36 11.0 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 26.50 18.5 – – – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... – – – – – – Management related............................................ – – – – – – Sales............................................................. 7.90 4.2 7.90 4.2 – – 1....................................................... 7.58 2.4 7.58 2.4 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 7.93 3.2 7.93 3.2 – – Cashiers.................................................... 8.05 6.8 8.05 6.8 – – 1....................................................... 7.47 5.0 7.47 5.0 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 11.11 4.5 12.20 6.1 9.00 5.4 1....................................................... 8.42 11.0 – – 8.48 11.0 2....................................................... 8.90 8.3 9.77 5.7 8.75 9.4 3....................................................... 11.49 3.1 11.57 3.5 – – 4....................................................... 11.78 9.1 11.91 10.0 9.85 3.9 Secretaries................................................. 15.31 10.1 15.46 9.9 – – 4....................................................... 14.81 5.9 14.81 5.9 – – Library clerks.............................................. 8.70 1.0 – – 8.78 .4 1....................................................... 7.19 1.3 – – 7.24 1.2 4....................................................... 9.85 3.9 – – 9.85 3.9 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 11.83 2.9 – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 9.50 4.5 8.85 2.9 15.09 1.9 1....................................................... 8.47 2.8 8.47 2.8 – – 2....................................................... 11.70 6.7 10.70 3.3 – – 3....................................................... 12.34 19.6 8.13 2.7 – – 4....................................................... 12.69 8.6 – – – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... – – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 8.20 .7 8.20 .7 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 14.82 3.2 – – 15.14 1.7 Bus drivers................................................. 15.05 2.3 – – 15.21 1.1 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... $8.99 3.7 $8.99 3.7 – – 1....................................................... 8.53 3.1 8.53 3.1 – – 2....................................................... 11.71 2.8 11.71 2.8 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 7.06 2.3 7.06 2.3 – – 1....................................................... 7.02 2.9 7.02 2.9 – – Service............................................................. 7.41 7.0 6.47 2.4 $11.90 11.2 1....................................................... 6.42 3.0 6.23 2.0 8.53 5.1 2....................................................... 6.76 11.1 5.86 9.8 – – 3....................................................... 10.16 7.7 9.36 2.9 – – 4....................................................... 11.77 5.4 10.20 6.2 – – Protective service............................................ 10.85 18.1 – – – – Food service.................................................. 6.31 5.6 5.79 2.9 11.57 12.7 1....................................................... 6.25 2.6 6.15 2.2 – – 2....................................................... 5.27 9.8 4.97 12.9 – – 3....................................................... 8.92 2.7 8.92 2.7 – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.30 10.1 3.30 10.1 – – 1....................................................... 4.66 20.7 4.66 20.7 – – 2....................................................... 2.71 7.6 2.71 7.6 – – Bartenders.................................................. 4.74 10.3 4.74 10.3 – – 2....................................................... 4.71 10.9 4.71 10.9 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.47 14.3 3.47 14.3 – – 1....................................................... 4.74 22.7 4.74 22.7 – – 2....................................................... 2.54 18.6 2.54 18.6 – – Other food service........................................... 7.64 5.5 7.05 3.0 11.57 12.7 1....................................................... 6.59 2.0 6.48 1.4 – – 2....................................................... 8.41 5.7 8.20 5.0 – – 3....................................................... 8.92 2.7 8.92 2.7 – – Cooks....................................................... 9.60 11.1 8.25 4.8 – – Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 6.75 7.6 6.68 7.7 – – 1....................................................... 6.21 2.6 6.21 2.6 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 7.37 6.2 7.12 3.1 – – 1....................................................... 6.68 3.9 6.60 2.4 – – 2....................................................... 8.30 6.3 7.89 1.4 – – Health service................................................ 9.97 3.9 9.50 1.9 – – 3....................................................... 10.48 2.2 10.34 1.9 – – 4....................................................... 12.15 6.2 – – – – Health aides, except nursing................................ 10.21 14.4 8.71 12.4 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 9.83 3.6 9.82 3.7 – – 3....................................................... 10.34 1.9 10.34 1.9 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 11.10 15.0 10.54 23.3 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 11.21 15.1 10.94 27.0 – – Personal service.............................................. 7.94 10.7 6.38 11.7 11.16 18.0 1....................................................... 6.78 10.9 – – – – 2....................................................... 5.37 25.6 5.29 26.4 – – Service, n.e.c.............................................. $5.59 25.8 $5.59 25.8 – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 5-1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Cleveland-Akron, OH, December 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....................................................... $19.45 $10.43 $20.26 $17.74 $18.36 $22.05 All excluding sales............................................. 19.47 10.73 20.38 17.78 18.52 22.19 White collar........................................................ 23.24 14.83 24.63 22.12 22.55 23.48 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 23.68 17.70 25.19 22.83 23.25 27.05 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.72 20.74 30.54 24.31 26.19 – Professional specialty.......................................... 28.84 21.84 31.07 26.60 28.21 – Technical....................................................... 19.81 16.59 25.14 18.81 19.56 – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 31.69 26.50 – 31.92 31.28 – Sales............................................................. 19.16 7.90 11.45 17.34 14.63 21.96 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 14.42 11.11 14.28 14.21 14.21 14.87 Blue collar......................................................... 16.12 9.50 19.07 13.36 15.77 14.33 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.84 – 22.60 17.35 19.72 – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.44 8.20 18.50 12.20 14.29 – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.92 14.82 18.05 14.44 16.79 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 13.64 8.99 15.56 10.31 12.70 – Service............................................................. 12.65 7.41 15.67 8.63 11.06 – 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....................................................... 2.2 4.2 2.7 3.1 2.3 8.3 All excluding sales............................................. 2.1 4.2 2.6 2.9 2.3 18.0 White collar........................................................ 2.8 6.5 4.9 3.1 2.9 9.6 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 2.8 5.4 4.8 3.1 2.9 23.5 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 2.3 3.6 5.0 2.8 2.3 – Professional specialty.......................................... 2.3 3.9 4.9 2.9 2.6 – Technical....................................................... 4.9 3.3 12.1 4.9 4.6 – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 4.9 18.5 – 4.9 5.4 – Sales............................................................. 7.8 4.2 5.5 7.5 8.4 9.3 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 1.7 4.5 6.3 1.6 1.7 16.9 Blue collar......................................................... 3.1 4.5 3.7 1.9 3.0 10.1 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 5.0 – 2.6 5.5 4.9 – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 2.0 .7 6.6 2.4 1.7 – Transportation and material moving................................ 9.9 3.2 7.2 12.7 9.6 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 7.4 3.7 5.4 2.9 6.6 – Service............................................................. 5.6 7.0 7.3 2.3 3.1 – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 5 Time workers' wages are based solely on an hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 6 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 5-2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Cleveland-Akron, OH, December 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....................................................... $17.34 - - - - - - - - - All excluding sales............................................. 17.37 - - - - - - - - - White collar........................................................ 21.32 - - - - - - - - - White-collar excluding sales.................................... 22.12 - - - - - - - - - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 23.26 - - - - - - - - - Professional specialty.......................................... 25.34 - - - - - - - - - Technical....................................................... 19.44 - - - - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 32.43 - - - - - - - - - Sales............................................................. 16.91 - - - - - - - - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 14.00 - - - - - - - - - Blue collar......................................................... 15.59 - - - - - - - - - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 20.04 - - - - - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.25 - - - - - - - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 16.67 - - - - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.53 - - - - - - - - - Service............................................................. 8.94 - - - - - - - - - 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....................................................... 3.0 - - - - - - - - - All excluding sales............................................. 2.9 - - - - - - - - - White collar........................................................ 3.7 - - - - - - - - - White-collar excluding sales.................................... 3.7 - - - - - - - - - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 3.0 - - - - - - - - - Professional specialty.......................................... 2.9 - - - - - - - - - Technical....................................................... 5.0 - - - - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 5.3 - - - - - - - - - Sales............................................................. 7.7 - - - - - - - - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 1.8 - - - - - - - - - Blue collar......................................................... 3.3 - - - - - - - - - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 5.9 - - - - - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 1.8 - - - - - - - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 12.6 - - - - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 7.0 - - - - - - - - - Service............................................................. 2.2 - - - - - - - - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 4 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 5-3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Cleveland-Akron, OH, December 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....................................................... $17.34 $15.44 $18.02 $16.52 $20.33 All excluding sales............................................. 17.37 15.03 18.13 16.65 20.31 White collar........................................................ 21.32 20.58 21.54 21.49 21.60 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 22.12 21.89 22.16 22.73 21.61 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 23.26 22.78 23.32 22.85 23.66 Professional specialty.......................................... 25.34 25.60 25.31 25.04 25.51 Technical....................................................... 19.44 18.22 19.61 18.73 20.23 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 32.43 36.61 31.44 32.31 29.89 Sales............................................................. 16.91 17.98 15.83 14.73 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 14.00 13.34 14.20 13.85 14.55 Blue collar......................................................... 15.59 14.08 16.21 13.60 22.92 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 20.04 18.61 20.65 16.62 26.05 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.25 12.42 14.81 12.63 22.45 Transportation and material moving................................ 16.67 13.95 17.98 17.47 19.12 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.53 12.16 12.78 11.32 17.72 Service............................................................. 8.94 7.14 9.83 9.29 10.59 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....................................................... 3.0 5.0 3.5 5.2 3.2 All excluding sales............................................. 2.9 5.0 3.4 5.0 3.1 White collar........................................................ 3.7 6.0 4.2 7.2 4.2 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 3.7 6.8 4.1 6.8 4.2 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 3.0 12.4 3.1 6.0 4.4 Professional specialty.......................................... 2.9 19.0 2.4 4.1 3.1 Technical....................................................... 5.0 6.4 5.3 9.3 7.8 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 5.3 5.5 6.8 11.4 6.7 Sales............................................................. 7.7 7.7 13.1 15.0 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 1.8 6.1 1.4 3.1 1.9 Blue collar......................................................... 3.3 4.3 5.5 4.0 2.4 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 5.9 4.1 8.7 8.7 2.7 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 1.8 4.2 2.6 3.0 6.1 Transportation and material moving................................ 12.6 17.7 9.3 12.6 8.6 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 7.0 9.7 8.2 3.8 10.7 Service............................................................. 2.2 6.2 3.5 2.3 6.0 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, 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, Cleveland-Akron, OH, December 2002 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $8.45 $11.10 $15.70 $22.78 $31.09 All excluding sales........................... 8.60 11.25 15.75 22.74 30.91 White collar.................................... 10.30 13.66 19.44 27.01 39.92 White collar excluding sales................ 11.18 14.29 19.98 27.63 41.35 Professional specialty and technical.......... 15.25 18.50 23.83 31.47 42.38 Professional specialty...................... 16.78 21.09 25.11 34.06 43.27 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 24.36 25.77 31.26 36.47 40.54 Industrial engineers.................... 24.33 25.26 33.65 33.65 40.54 Mechanical engineers.................... 20.75 24.82 25.00 27.18 34.53 Engineers, n.e.c........................ 24.83 26.90 31.22 36.47 39.33 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 19.84 21.49 29.43 32.15 37.94 Computer systems analysts and scientists 21.49 21.49 29.65 32.22 38.35 Natural scientists........................ 19.62 21.24 24.55 29.22 42.19 Chemists, except biochemists............ 19.45 20.51 23.07 30.50 43.51 Health related............................ 19.20 20.83 22.99 24.54 27.21 Physicians.............................. 18.59 19.66 22.19 62.84 84.13 Registered nurses....................... 19.58 21.17 23.53 24.54 26.19 Respiratory therapists.................. 18.91 20.04 20.87 21.37 23.37 Physical therapists..................... 21.25 21.25 21.25 25.96 28.62 Teachers, college and university.......... 19.20 30.27 40.59 47.02 56.08 Teachers, except college and university... 19.75 24.01 31.07 41.10 44.58 Prekindergarten and kindergarten........ 7.50 8.00 12.28 35.83 42.44 Elementary school teachers.............. 22.95 26.87 33.71 41.91 46.38 Secondary school teachers............... 22.95 27.15 36.44 42.44 45.18 Teachers, n.e.c......................... 22.66 25.11 31.01 41.61 44.58 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... 15.52 20.62 25.59 42.96 42.96 Librarians.............................. 15.52 20.62 25.59 42.96 42.96 Social scientists and urban planners...... – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers. 13.48 15.73 18.20 22.05 28.27 Social workers.......................... 13.48 15.73 18.20 22.05 28.27 Lawyers and judges........................ 16.03 23.68 28.85 44.93 54.33 Lawyers................................. 16.03 23.68 28.85 44.93 54.33 Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 14.32 15.66 19.83 23.80 29.49 Professional, n.e.c..................... 10.92 15.66 17.34 19.16 28.37 Technical................................... 12.08 15.46 17.30 21.47 26.86 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians.......................... 11.03 12.46 17.13 20.04 23.23 Radiological technicians................ 15.33 17.24 19.50 24.42 25.13 Licensed practical nurses............... 14.75 16.13 17.00 19.00 20.00 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................................ 11.50 13.10 16.24 18.14 32.02 Electrical and electronic technicians... 16.59 19.74 21.42 26.25 26.25 Drafters................................ 12.45 15.03 20.37 25.98 33.09 Chemical technicians.................... 14.30 15.53 17.82 23.33 34.43 Computer programmers.................... 15.60 15.60 22.34 32.24 46.15 Technical and related, n.e.c............ 9.60 12.86 16.67 22.78 31.64 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 15.91 19.90 25.69 39.73 55.26 Executives, administrators, and managers.. $15.55 $23.15 $32.71 $43.80 $59.96 Administrators and officials, public administration....................... 12.88 12.88 24.37 24.37 42.34 Financial managers...................... 19.31 27.40 33.80 55.26 106.87 Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations..................... 26.44 31.11 37.69 40.42 46.41 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 24.58 32.41 43.03 49.18 58.36 Managers, service organizations, n.e.c.. 22.24 22.24 30.00 32.71 32.71 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 11.45 20.79 30.59 43.59 59.96 Management related........................ 16.00 18.41 20.70 24.03 29.73 Accountants and auditors................ 15.91 17.28 20.20 22.35 24.58 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists.......................... 13.78 19.90 20.87 26.54 29.63 Management related, n.e.c............... 17.16 18.47 20.04 23.57 28.23 Sales......................................... 7.00 8.30 14.93 23.66 31.25 Supervisors, sales...................... 9.50 15.96 19.74 29.21 38.46 Sales, other business services.......... 13.55 18.15 24.52 32.05 37.74 Sales workers, other commodities........ 6.62 7.16 8.32 12.05 17.34 Cashiers................................ 6.25 6.90 7.90 10.60 14.53 Administrative support, including clerical.... 9.98 11.29 13.36 16.44 19.84 Supervisors, general office............. 16.67 18.07 20.30 23.65 26.40 Secretaries............................. 11.29 12.75 14.86 17.42 20.00 Interviewers............................ 10.26 10.78 12.31 12.31 12.31 Receptionists........................... 9.75 10.00 11.54 12.86 16.95 Order clerks............................ 11.15 11.75 13.25 16.33 17.88 Library clerks.......................... 6.75 7.66 11.61 13.46 16.41 File clerks............................. 10.10 10.16 10.71 10.92 14.35 Records clerks, n.e.c................... 8.94 10.70 11.52 14.25 16.33 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 10.71 11.98 13.36 15.52 18.00 Payroll and timekeeping clerks.......... 10.00 10.00 16.81 18.96 19.23 Billing clerks.......................... 11.09 11.81 12.75 13.59 14.42 Telephone operators..................... 9.30 9.88 11.00 11.11 11.88 Mail clerks, except postal service...... 8.77 8.77 9.36 10.91 12.41 Dispatchers............................. 7.06 7.06 8.35 18.71 18.71 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 10.29 11.05 12.35 15.00 20.66 Stock and inventory clerks.............. 11.25 11.25 11.75 12.94 14.41 Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........................ 10.33 11.50 13.46 14.86 16.68 Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............................ 10.28 11.26 15.14 18.28 24.84 Bill and account collectors............. 10.53 11.70 12.84 13.82 19.26 General office clerks................... 10.67 11.68 13.19 18.56 21.82 Teachers' aides......................... 8.64 9.66 11.77 16.93 21.48 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 10.17 11.50 12.98 14.29 19.56 Blue collar..................................... 9.00 11.25 14.66 18.82 24.96 Precision production, craft, and repair....... $12.98 $15.25 $18.35 $24.24 $28.96 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers.... 7.75 9.90 13.25 17.37 35.94 Automobile mechanics.................... 17.00 17.00 18.82 20.00 21.00 Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics............................ 16.82 16.82 17.14 21.29 23.79 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 12.98 15.25 21.00 28.26 29.43 Machinery maintenance................... 10.80 11.10 12.61 12.75 15.42 Millwrights............................. 15.65 20.67 27.96 28.10 29.07 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 12.80 13.60 17.99 21.05 22.49 Electricians............................ 18.62 19.26 24.29 29.42 31.18 Painters, construction and maintenance.. 13.25 13.25 27.90 28.96 28.96 Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters.. 12.52 17.00 18.00 27.96 29.07 Supervisors, production................. 13.75 16.30 18.50 20.56 30.68 Tool and die makers..................... 15.00 16.27 18.00 28.35 29.47 Inspectors, testers, and graders........ 10.00 14.30 14.53 17.16 26.22 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 8.60 10.40 13.63 16.30 24.59 Punching and stamping press operators... 7.50 8.00 10.30 13.15 25.33 Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators.......... 9.30 11.50 13.75 15.91 23.48 Numerical control machine operators..... 14.11 15.51 15.75 20.25 26.06 Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c.... 12.77 13.94 14.70 24.96 24.96 Molding and casting machine operators... 7.00 9.07 10.53 14.49 15.50 Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators............................ 7.97 8.10 8.35 8.80 8.80 Packaging and filling machine operators. 8.00 8.75 11.07 14.85 19.51 Mixing and blending machine operators... 8.00 10.00 12.91 16.55 22.51 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 9.97 13.33 13.81 17.74 19.96 Welders and cutters..................... 10.45 11.50 14.00 15.50 25.42 Assemblers.............................. 9.60 10.00 11.81 14.41 24.70 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 9.50 10.50 11.50 15.22 18.20 Transportation and material moving............ 11.00 12.54 16.25 20.00 23.70 Truck drivers........................... 12.85 15.60 19.50 23.15 23.70 Bus drivers............................. 13.14 15.79 17.24 20.00 20.00 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 11.00 11.50 12.50 14.66 24.35 Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, n.e.c..................... 10.30 12.75 17.65 20.27 24.15 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 7.61 9.00 11.52 15.54 18.83 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................................. 8.00 8.50 9.40 11.55 14.00 Production helpers...................... 9.75 11.25 15.88 19.22 21.56 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 6.25 7.50 10.50 13.28 15.65 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 7.55 7.65 12.11 14.66 16.17 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 9.00 9.75 11.11 13.23 18.44 Hand packers and packagers.............. $8.32 $10.00 $12.05 $15.45 $16.96 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 8.00 9.00 10.00 15.54 16.19 Service......................................... 5.75 8.00 10.00 13.22 19.01 Protective service........................ 8.00 9.00 13.08 19.47 23.71 Firefighting............................ 15.06 15.06 19.47 20.01 21.02 Police and detectives, public service... 18.34 19.38 20.66 24.29 26.16 Protective service, n.e.c............... 7.00 8.72 14.79 17.19 17.58 Food service.............................. 2.13 5.75 7.50 10.00 12.79 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.14 8.00 Bartenders.............................. 2.13 2.13 4.50 6.00 8.00 Waiters and waitresses.................. 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.13 8.68 Other food service....................... 5.75 6.50 8.25 11.00 13.26 Supervisors, food preparation and service.............................. 12.02 12.79 13.22 15.47 18.39 Cooks................................... 8.00 8.50 10.25 12.25 14.42 Kitchen workers, food preparation....... 5.75 5.85 6.65 8.00 9.50 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 5.75 6.25 8.00 9.78 11.50 Health service............................ 8.50 9.21 10.20 11.70 13.95 Health aides, except nursing............ 8.40 10.15 12.32 14.85 15.93 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 8.50 9.00 9.92 10.91 11.80 Cleaning and building service............. 8.00 9.36 10.88 14.03 17.34 Maids and housemen...................... 7.00 7.28 9.38 10.08 10.75 Janitors and cleaners................... 8.35 9.44 10.88 14.35 17.36 Personal service.......................... 6.50 8.04 10.93 15.70 22.90 Early childhood teachers' assistants.... 6.90 7.00 7.66 8.33 10.72 Child care workers, n.e.c............... 9.23 11.45 17.22 21.02 23.49 Service, n.e.c.......................... 3.50 6.15 8.50 9.50 10.97 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, Cleveland-Akron, OH, December 2002 Private industry Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $8.00 $10.40 $14.67 $21.30 $28.85 All excluding sales........................... 8.25 10.56 14.67 21.14 28.38 White collar.................................... 10.00 12.78 18.00 24.96 35.54 White collar excluding sales................ 10.76 13.43 18.75 25.18 36.46 Professional specialty and technical.......... 13.62 17.00 21.49 26.25 35.14 Professional specialty...................... 15.42 20.04 23.77 29.49 38.14 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 24.72 25.44 31.22 36.47 40.65 Industrial engineers.................... 24.33 25.26 33.65 33.65 40.54 Mechanical engineers.................... 20.75 24.82 25.00 27.18 34.53 Engineers, n.e.c........................ 24.83 26.90 31.22 36.47 39.33 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 19.24 24.34 30.29 32.15 38.50 Computer systems analysts and scientists 18.99 25.33 30.29 34.02 40.36 Natural scientists........................ 19.45 21.24 23.07 31.70 43.91 Chemists, except biochemists............ 19.45 20.51 23.07 30.50 43.51 Health related............................ 19.38 20.87 22.57 24.20 25.80 Registered nurses....................... 19.58 21.09 23.31 24.49 25.80 Respiratory therapists.................. 18.91 20.04 20.87 21.37 23.37 Physical therapists..................... 21.25 21.25 21.25 25.96 28.62 Teachers, college and university.......... 19.20 26.03 41.19 44.86 47.55 Teachers, except college and university... 7.50 8.90 19.27 25.95 33.15 Secondary school teachers............... 17.03 20.10 25.38 31.66 37.10 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. 12.00 13.48 15.51 18.00 20.76 Social workers.......................... 12.00 13.48 15.51 18.00 20.76 Lawyers and judges........................ - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 14.32 15.66 19.83 23.80 29.49 Professional, n.e.c..................... 10.92 15.66 17.34 19.16 28.37 Technical................................... 12.00 15.39 17.16 21.42 26.25 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians.......................... 11.03 12.46 17.13 20.04 23.23 Radiological technicians................ 9.27 18.60 23.94 24.85 25.89 Licensed practical nurses............... 14.75 16.13 17.00 18.66 19.95 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................................ 11.50 13.10 16.23 17.91 32.95 Drafters................................ 12.45 15.03 20.37 25.98 33.09 Chemical technicians.................... 14.30 15.53 17.82 23.33 34.43 Technical and related, n.e.c............ 9.00 11.40 16.67 22.78 31.64 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 16.26 19.90 27.37 38.94 57.14 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 17.23 25.00 32.74 43.80 59.96 Financial managers...................... 19.31 27.40 33.80 55.26 106.87 Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations..................... 31.01 33.57 39.41 41.00 46.41 Administrators, education and related fields............................... $15.87 $17.80 $26.86 $35.88 $35.88 Managers, service organizations, n.e.c.. 30.00 30.00 30.00 32.71 45.67 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 11.40 21.00 30.59 43.59 59.96 Management related........................ 16.08 18.51 20.43 24.11 30.17 Accountants and auditors................ 15.91 16.83 19.72 21.93 24.20 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists.......................... 13.78 19.90 20.87 26.54 29.63 Management related, n.e.c............... 17.30 18.63 20.01 24.33 28.89 Sales......................................... 7.00 8.24 14.90 23.66 31.25 Supervisors, sales...................... 9.50 15.96 19.74 29.21 38.46 Sales, other business services.......... 13.55 18.15 24.52 32.05 37.74 Sales workers, other commodities........ 6.62 7.16 8.32 12.05 17.34 Cashiers................................ 6.25 6.90 7.80 10.26 12.90 Administrative support, including clerical.... 10.00 11.24 13.08 16.25 19.26 Supervisors, general office............. 15.93 16.67 20.30 22.89 27.13 Secretaries............................. 11.25 13.13 15.39 17.50 20.09 Interviewers............................ 10.26 10.78 12.31 12.31 12.31 Receptionists........................... 9.75 10.00 11.06 12.75 13.24 Order clerks............................ 11.15 11.75 13.25 16.33 17.88 File clerks............................. 10.10 10.16 10.71 10.92 14.35 Records clerks, n.e.c................... 9.41 11.47 12.68 14.25 16.77 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 10.50 12.09 13.36 15.86 18.00 Payroll and timekeeping clerks.......... 10.00 10.00 12.50 19.12 19.23 Billing clerks.......................... 11.09 11.81 12.75 13.59 14.42 Telephone operators..................... 9.30 9.88 11.00 11.11 11.88 Mail clerks, except postal service...... 8.77 8.77 9.36 10.91 12.41 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 10.29 11.05 12.35 15.00 20.66 Stock and inventory clerks.............. 11.25 11.25 11.75 12.94 14.41 Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........................ 10.33 11.50 13.46 14.86 16.68 Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............................ 10.28 11.26 15.14 18.28 24.84 Bill and account collectors............. 10.53 11.70 12.84 13.82 19.26 General office clerks................... 11.05 11.65 12.82 15.94 18.99 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 9.71 11.50 12.98 14.29 21.14 Blue collar..................................... 9.00 11.10 14.41 18.58 24.96 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 12.98 14.98 18.35 26.23 29.07 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 12.98 15.25 21.00 28.26 29.43 Millwrights............................. 15.65 20.67 27.96 28.10 29.07 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 12.80 13.60 14.00 21.06 29.23 Electricians............................ 18.70 19.91 28.26 29.42 31.18 Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters.. 12.52 17.00 18.50 28.02 29.07 Supervisors, production................. $13.75 $16.30 $18.50 $20.56 $30.68 Tool and die makers..................... 15.00 16.27 18.00 28.35 29.47 Inspectors, testers, and graders........ 10.00 14.30 14.53 17.16 26.22 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 8.60 10.38 13.59 16.25 24.59 Punching and stamping press operators... 7.50 8.00 10.30 13.15 25.33 Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators.......... 9.30 11.50 13.75 15.91 23.48 Numerical control machine operators..... 14.11 15.51 15.75 20.25 26.06 Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c.... 12.77 13.94 14.70 24.96 24.96 Molding and casting machine operators... 7.00 9.07 10.53 14.49 15.50 Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators............................ 7.97 8.10 8.35 8.80 8.80 Packaging and filling machine operators. 8.00 8.75 11.07 14.85 19.51 Mixing and blending machine operators... 8.00 10.00 12.91 16.55 22.51 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 9.97 13.33 13.81 17.69 19.96 Welders and cutters..................... 10.45 11.50 14.00 15.50 25.42 Assemblers.............................. 9.60 10.00 11.81 14.41 24.70 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 9.50 10.50 11.50 15.22 18.20 Transportation and material moving............ 11.00 12.33 15.98 23.15 23.70 Truck drivers........................... 12.85 15.70 19.50 23.15 23.70 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 11.00 11.50 12.50 14.66 24.35 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 7.55 9.00 11.30 15.50 18.83 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................................. 8.00 8.45 9.00 10.75 14.00 Production helpers...................... 9.75 11.25 15.88 19.22 21.56 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 6.25 7.45 10.08 13.50 15.65 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 7.55 7.65 12.11 14.66 16.17 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 9.00 9.75 11.11 13.23 18.44 Hand packers and packagers.............. 8.32 10.00 12.05 15.45 16.96 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 8.00 9.00 9.62 15.54 15.60 Service......................................... 3.50 7.00 8.75 10.56 12.73 Protective service........................ 7.50 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.97 Food service.............................. 2.13 5.50 7.00 8.65 11.50 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.14 8.00 Bartenders.............................. 2.13 2.13 4.50 6.00 8.00 Waiters and waitresses.................. 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.13 8.68 Other food service....................... 5.75 6.25 7.72 9.30 12.61 Supervisors, food preparation and service.............................. 7.97 12.02 14.00 16.97 19.83 Cooks................................... 7.50 8.50 9.00 12.00 14.42 Kitchen workers, food preparation....... $5.75 $5.85 $6.60 $7.69 $9.50 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 5.75 6.25 7.50 8.65 10.00 Health service............................ 8.25 9.09 10.04 11.00 12.26 Health aides, except nursing............ 7.77 9.23 10.35 12.02 13.95 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 8.50 9.01 9.95 10.93 11.83 Cleaning and building service............. 7.51 8.87 10.62 13.95 17.90 Maids and housemen...................... 7.00 7.28 9.38 10.08 10.75 Janitors and cleaners................... 8.35 9.20 10.85 14.35 21.95 Personal service.......................... 6.00 7.21 9.00 10.98 13.61 Service, n.e.c.......................... 3.50 6.00 8.25 9.14 10.70 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, Cleveland-Akron, OH, December 2002 State and local government Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $11.39 $14.90 $19.51 $27.17 $41.61 All excluding sales........................... 11.33 14.90 19.51 27.18 41.61 White collar.................................... 12.88 16.48 23.33 33.61 43.68 White collar excluding sales................ 12.88 16.47 23.49 33.61 43.69 Professional specialty and technical.......... 17.30 21.90 28.60 38.98 44.58 Professional specialty...................... 18.15 22.52 28.91 39.14 44.59 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists...... - - - - - Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ 18.59 20.31 25.62 33.61 73.56 Registered nurses....................... 18.92 21.40 24.88 27.34 33.61 Teachers, college and university.......... 25.37 31.18 40.19 47.48 57.32 Teachers, except college and university... 22.66 25.44 33.56 41.83 44.86 Elementary school teachers.............. 25.09 28.89 36.44 42.99 46.70 Teachers, n.e.c......................... 22.66 25.11 31.01 41.61 44.55 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... 17.30 20.91 26.82 42.96 42.96 Librarians.............................. 17.30 20.91 26.82 42.96 42.96 Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. 15.57 16.48 19.64 25.73 29.36 Social workers.......................... 15.57 16.48 19.64 25.73 29.36 Lawyers and judges........................ - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 14.92 16.44 19.38 24.72 30.69 Technical and related, n.e.c............ 12.81 15.66 18.11 22.52 25.95 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 12.88 20.38 23.57 42.34 45.79 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 12.88 22.00 24.37 43.99 49.18 Administrators and officials, public administration....................... 12.88 12.88 24.37 24.37 42.34 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 42.34 42.68 44.85 49.18 58.36 Management related........................ 15.13 18.23 21.32 23.57 23.94 Sales......................................... - - - - - Administrative support, including clerical.... 9.66 12.00 14.90 17.39 20.64 Secretaries............................. 11.29 12.34 14.11 16.64 18.65 Library clerks.......................... 6.75 7.66 11.57 14.03 16.90 General office clerks................... 10.41 11.75 18.56 21.82 24.56 Teachers' aides......................... 8.64 9.80 11.77 17.39 21.48 Blue collar..................................... 12.39 15.60 17.24 20.00 22.34 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 13.97 16.26 18.31 19.82 22.34 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. - - - - - Transportation and material moving............ $10.73 $14.51 $16.76 $20.00 $20.22 Bus drivers............................. 13.21 15.89 17.24 20.00 20.00 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 11.16 15.47 15.60 17.06 18.75 Service......................................... 9.97 11.87 14.92 19.47 23.96 Protective service........................ 12.65 15.06 19.38 21.54 27.32 Firefighting............................ 15.06 15.06 19.47 20.01 21.02 Police and detectives, public service... 18.34 19.38 20.66 24.29 26.16 Food service.............................. 9.42 10.78 11.87 13.10 13.89 Other food service....................... 9.42 10.78 11.87 13.10 13.89 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 10.16 10.29 11.87 11.87 13.89 Health service............................ 8.97 12.54 14.21 15.55 16.84 Health aides, except nursing............ 12.59 13.54 14.65 15.66 17.17 Cleaning and building service............. $8.26 $9.99 $11.73 $14.16 $16.52 Janitors and cleaners................... 8.26 9.99 11.73 14.16 16.52 Personal service.......................... 9.23 12.25 16.84 21.86 26.72 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, Cleveland-Akron, OH, December 2002 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $9.50 $12.00 $16.43 $23.76 $32.08 All excluding sales........................... 9.60 12.00 16.35 23.69 32.24 White collar.................................... 11.05 14.24 19.88 28.27 41.19 White collar excluding sales................ 11.35 14.48 20.10 28.61 42.26 Professional specialty and technical.......... 15.39 18.77 24.10 32.49 42.96 Professional specialty...................... 17.20 21.25 25.81 35.18 43.59 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 24.36 25.77 31.26 36.47 40.54 Industrial engineers.................... 24.33 25.26 33.65 33.65 40.54 Mechanical engineers.................... 20.75 24.82 25.00 27.18 34.53 Engineers, n.e.c........................ 24.83 26.90 31.22 36.47 39.33 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 19.84 21.49 29.43 32.15 37.94 Computer systems analysts and scientists 21.49 21.49 29.65 32.22 38.35 Natural scientists........................ 19.62 21.24 24.55 29.22 42.19 Chemists, except biochemists............ 19.45 20.51 23.07 30.50 43.51 Health related............................ 19.20 20.78 22.57 24.50 27.21 Physicians.............................. 18.59 19.66 22.19 59.42 84.13 Registered nurses....................... 19.58 21.02 23.32 24.54 26.36 Respiratory therapists.................. 18.45 20.21 20.87 21.37 23.37 Teachers, college and university.......... 26.39 32.32 41.63 47.37 56.08 Teachers, except college and university... 21.49 25.84 33.55 41.83 45.01 Prekindergarten and kindergarten........ 8.00 8.90 22.99 37.34 43.27 Elementary school teachers.............. 23.07 27.18 34.06 42.16 46.38 Secondary school teachers............... 22.95 27.29 36.44 42.44 45.18 Teachers, n.e.c......................... 24.46 27.98 34.28 42.69 45.22 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... 17.82 22.46 26.04 42.96 42.96 Librarians.............................. 17.82 22.46 26.04 42.96 42.96 Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. 13.46 15.70 18.20 22.27 28.27 Social workers.......................... 13.46 15.70 18.20 22.27 28.27 Lawyers and judges........................ - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 14.32 15.66 19.16 23.34 29.49 Professional, n.e.c..................... 10.90 15.66 17.34 18.84 23.80 Technical................................... 12.00 15.46 17.31 22.32 27.42 Radiological technicians................ 9.27 17.24 20.50 24.85 25.89 Licensed practical nurses............... 14.23 16.02 17.25 19.25 20.13 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................................ 11.50 12.76 15.92 17.91 37.00 Electrical and electronic technicians... 16.59 19.74 21.42 26.25 26.25 Drafters................................ 12.45 15.03 20.37 25.98 33.09 Chemical technicians.................... 14.30 15.53 17.82 23.33 34.43 Computer programmers.................... 15.60 15.60 22.34 32.24 46.15 Technical and related, n.e.c............ 9.60 13.88 16.67 22.78 31.64 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 15.91 19.90 25.69 39.89 55.38 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 15.60 23.15 32.71 43.80 59.96 Administrators and officials, public administration....................... 12.88 12.88 24.37 24.37 42.34 Financial managers...................... 19.31 27.40 33.80 55.26 106.87 Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations..................... $26.44 $31.11 $37.69 $40.42 $46.41 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 24.58 32.41 43.03 49.18 58.36 Managers, service organizations, n.e.c.. 22.24 22.24 30.00 32.71 32.71 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 11.45 20.89 30.59 43.59 59.96 Management related........................ 16.08 18.41 20.67 24.02 29.73 Accountants and auditors................ 15.91 17.28 20.20 22.35 24.58 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists.......................... 13.25 19.90 20.87 26.54 32.08 Management related, n.e.c............... 17.16 18.41 20.04 23.57 26.97 Sales......................................... 7.89 10.77 17.31 24.83 31.25 Supervisors, sales...................... 9.50 15.96 19.74 29.21 38.46 Sales, other business services.......... 13.55 18.15 24.52 32.05 37.74 Sales workers, other commodities........ 6.76 7.40 9.00 14.52 24.04 Cashiers................................ 6.82 7.94 9.60 12.05 16.78 Administrative support, including clerical.... 10.10 11.47 13.58 16.67 20.09 Supervisors, general office............. 16.67 18.96 20.70 23.65 26.88 Secretaries............................. 11.29 12.91 14.86 17.42 19.83 Receptionists........................... 9.75 10.00 11.54 12.86 16.95 Order clerks............................ 11.15 11.75 13.25 16.33 17.88 Library clerks.......................... 9.64 12.01 12.36 15.61 18.15 File clerks............................. 10.10 10.16 10.71 10.92 14.35 Records clerks, n.e.c................... 8.94 11.07 11.87 14.25 16.33 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 10.97 12.25 13.56 15.86 18.00 Payroll and timekeeping clerks.......... 12.50 13.12 16.81 19.23 19.23 Billing clerks.......................... 11.31 12.23 13.00 13.63 15.13 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 10.29 11.05 12.35 15.00 20.66 Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........................ 10.33 11.50 13.46 14.86 16.68 Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............................ 10.28 11.26 15.14 18.28 24.84 Bill and account collectors............. 10.53 11.70 12.84 13.82 19.26 General office clerks................... 11.05 11.68 13.19 18.56 21.82 Teachers' aides......................... 8.64 9.66 12.66 17.90 22.00 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 10.25 11.50 13.44 14.29 21.14 Blue collar..................................... 9.50 11.52 14.89 19.44 24.96 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 13.15 15.37 18.50 24.29 28.96 Automobile mechanics.................... 17.00 17.00 18.82 20.00 21.00 Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics............................ 16.82 16.82 17.14 21.29 23.79 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 12.98 15.25 21.00 28.26 29.43 Millwrights............................. 15.65 20.67 27.96 28.10 29.07 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 12.80 13.60 17.99 21.05 22.49 Electricians............................ 18.62 19.26 24.29 29.42 31.18 Painters, construction and maintenance.. 13.25 13.25 27.90 28.96 28.96 Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters.. $12.52 $17.00 $18.00 $27.96 $29.07 Supervisors, production................. 13.75 16.30 18.50 20.56 30.68 Tool and die makers..................... 15.00 16.27 18.00 28.35 29.47 Inspectors, testers, and graders........ 10.00 14.30 14.53 17.16 26.22 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 9.00 10.65 13.75 16.55 24.60 Punching and stamping press operators... 7.50 8.00 10.30 13.15 25.33 Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators.......... 9.30 11.50 13.75 15.91 23.48 Numerical control machine operators..... 14.11 15.51 15.75 20.25 26.06 Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c.... 12.77 13.94 14.70 24.96 24.96 Molding and casting machine operators... 8.80 9.50 11.00 14.49 16.15 Packaging and filling machine operators. 8.00 8.75 11.07 14.85 19.51 Mixing and blending machine operators... 8.00 10.00 12.91 16.55 22.51 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 12.00 13.81 14.49 18.08 20.58 Welders and cutters..................... 10.45 11.50 14.00 15.50 25.42 Assemblers.............................. 9.74 10.15 11.89 14.41 24.70 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 9.50 10.50 11.50 15.22 18.20 Transportation and material moving............ 10.80 12.50 16.42 20.27 23.76 Truck drivers........................... 12.85 15.70 19.50 23.15 23.70 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 11.00 11.50 12.50 14.66 24.35 Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators, n.e.c..................... 10.30 12.75 17.65 20.27 24.15 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 8.50 10.00 13.00 15.60 20.00 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................................. 8.25 9.00 9.75 12.28 14.00 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 9.12 10.50 12.75 14.85 15.95 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 7.55 7.65 12.11 14.66 16.17 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 11.10 11.52 11.52 13.46 24.03 Hand packers and packagers.............. 8.32 10.04 12.05 15.45 16.96 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 8.00 9.00 10.50 15.54 16.19 Service......................................... 8.00 9.00 10.88 15.06 20.46 Protective service........................ 8.00 9.00 14.37 19.49 24.29 Police and detectives, public service... 18.61 19.38 20.66 24.29 26.16 Guards and police, except public service 7.50 8.00 9.00 10.00 12.00 Food service.............................. 2.13 7.50 9.65 12.00 14.42 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.13 2.13 2.13 3.00 6.74 Waiters and waitresses.................. 2.13 2.13 2.13 6.74 8.50 Other food service....................... 7.50 8.50 10.67 13.00 14.42 Supervisors, food preparation and service.............................. 8.00 13.22 13.26 16.72 19.83 Cooks................................... 8.50 8.76 10.78 12.80 14.42 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 7.40 7.90 9.05 11.00 11.87 Health service............................ 8.50 9.25 10.20 11.80 14.21 Health aides, except nursing............ $9.25 $10.17 $12.59 $15.22 $15.96 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 8.50 9.00 9.90 10.91 11.92 Cleaning and building service............. 8.35 9.44 10.88 14.18 17.36 Maids and housemen...................... 7.00 7.28 9.45 10.08 10.75 Janitors and cleaners................... 8.55 9.52 10.88 14.35 17.90 Personal service.......................... 8.25 9.51 11.87 19.96 24.75 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, Cleveland-Akron, OH, December 2002 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $5.35 $6.50 $8.32 $12.45 $21.00 All excluding sales........................... 3.75 6.50 8.75 13.34 22.00 White collar.................................... 6.90 8.00 12.12 21.56 24.49 White collar excluding sales................ 8.86 10.78 17.00 23.31 25.04 Professional specialty and technical.......... 12.00 17.00 22.00 24.04 26.00 Professional specialty...................... 10.71 19.81 22.74 24.49 27.05 Health related............................ 18.84 21.04 23.99 25.00 26.67 Registered nurses....................... 18.53 21.50 23.95 24.88 26.00 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... 8.00 19.27 22.66 23.68 24.51 Teachers, n.e.c......................... 8.00 22.20 22.66 23.56 27.75 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... 11.85 13.34 16.85 20.54 20.54 Librarians.............................. 11.85 13.34 16.85 20.54 20.54 Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Lawyers and judges........................ - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 12.72 16.10 16.82 18.14 18.25 Radiological technicians................ 16.61 17.26 18.87 21.96 22.29 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 16.00 18.45 24.37 35.82 35.82 Executives, administrators, and managers.. - - - - - Management related........................ - - - - - Sales......................................... 6.25 6.75 7.45 8.24 10.36 Sales workers, other commodities........ 6.50 6.76 7.65 8.40 9.85 Cashiers................................ 6.15 6.50 7.25 8.70 12.05 Administrative support, including clerical.... 7.06 9.00 10.36 12.46 16.26 Secretaries............................. 9.93 11.30 16.00 17.44 21.54 Library clerks.......................... 6.45 6.75 7.94 9.76 13.07 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 10.00 11.50 12.12 12.69 12.98 Blue collar..................................... 6.30 7.50 8.75 10.20 14.63 Precision production, craft, and repair....... - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 7.00 7.00 8.00 8.68 9.97 Transportation and material moving............ 12.00 13.53 15.09 16.76 16.76 Bus drivers............................. 12.00 13.44 15.60 16.76 16.76 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 6.25 7.00 8.50 10.00 13.20 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.85 6.25 6.75 8.00 8.30 Service......................................... 2.13 5.75 7.00 9.23 12.33 Protective service........................ 7.00 7.93 9.00 10.70 18.34 Food service.............................. 2.13 3.50 6.25 8.00 10.16 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... $2.13 $2.13 $2.13 $2.13 $8.00 Bartenders.............................. 2.13 2.13 5.00 6.00 8.00 Waiters and waitresses.................. 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.13 8.75 Other food service....................... 5.75 5.95 6.95 8.50 11.50 Cooks................................... 7.25 7.75 8.75 10.50 14.00 Kitchen workers, food preparation....... 5.75 5.75 6.20 7.00 8.50 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 5.75 5.75 6.75 8.52 10.16 Health service............................ 7.00 8.38 10.00 11.00 12.99 Health aides, except nursing............ 6.50 7.00 10.45 13.22 14.02 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 7.85 9.11 10.00 10.90 11.00 Cleaning and building service............. $6.25 $7.50 $11.73 $13.89 $15.01 Janitors and cleaners................... 6.50 7.50 11.73 13.89 15.01 Personal service.......................... 3.50 6.00 7.75 9.23 14.51 Service, n.e.c.......................... 2.13 3.50 6.00 7.00 8.25 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, Cleveland-Akron, OH, December 2002 Full-time and part-time workers Occupational group Private State and Total industry local government All occupations....................................................... 698,200 535,400 162,900 All excluding sales............................................. 656,400 493,900 162,500 White collar........................................................ 357,500 250,900 106,600 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 315,700 209,500 106,300 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 155,500 86,200 69,300 Professional specialty.......................................... 123,900 57,300 66,600 Technical....................................................... 31,600 28,800 2,700 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 59,800 48,300 11,500 Sales............................................................. 41,800 41,400 - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 100,500 75,000 25,500 Blue collar......................................................... 203,700 185,700 18,100 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 52,100 43,800 8,300 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 89,300 88,900 - Transportation and material moving................................ 23,400 16,000 7,400 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 39,000 36,900 - Service............................................................. 137,000 98,800 38,200 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.