OC SM 11/01/96 Table: Meridian, MS 07/01/96
Table 1.  Weekly hours and pay of professional, administrative, technical, and clerical occupations, Meridian, MS, July 1996
                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                Weekly pay              Percent of workers receiving straight-time weekly pay (in 
                                             Average          (in dollars)(2)                                  dollars) ofÐ                       
                                      Number  weekly                                                                                              
        Occupation and level            of   hours(-                                                                                              
                                     workers    1)                                      275   300   325   350   375   400   425   450   475   500 
                                              (stan-   Mean   Median    Middle range    and    -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -  
                                              dard)                                    under  325   350   375   400   425   450   475   500   525 
                                                                                        300                                                       
                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                  
     CLERICAL OCCUPATIONS                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                  
Clerks, Accounting                                                                                                                                
  Level II..........................     24    40.0     $335    ±       ±     ±    ±     21    25    29    ±     ±     21     4    ±     ±     ±  
  Level III.........................     18    40.0      410    ±       ±     ±    ±     ±     ±     17    33    11     6    ±     ±     22    11 

  1 Standard hours reflect the workweek for which employees receive their regular straight-time salaries (exclusive of pay for overtime at regular
and/or premium rates), and the earnings correspond to these weekly hours.
  2 Excludes premium pay for overtime and for work on weekends, holidays, and late shifts.  Also excluded are performance bonuses and lump-sum
payments of the type negotiated in the auto and aerospace industries, as well as profit-sharing payments, attendance bonuses, Christmas or
year-end bonuses, and other nonproduction bonuses.  Pay increases, but not bonuses, under cost-of-living clauses, and incentive payments, however,
are included.  See Scope and Method of Survey for definitions and methods used to compute means, medians, and middle ranges.
Table 2.  Hourly pay of maintenance, toolroom, material movement, and custodial occupations, Meridian, MS, July 1996 
                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                        Hourly pay                                   Percent of workers receiving straight-time hourly pay (in dollars) ofÐ                     
                                                      (in dollars)(1)                                                                                                                           
                                      Number                                                                                                                                                    
        Occupation and level            of                                                                                                                                                      
                                     workers                                    5.00  5.50  6.00  6.50  7.00  7.50  8.00  8.50  9.00  9.50 10.00 10.50 11.00 11.50 12.00 12.50 13.00 13.50 14.00
                                               Mean   Median    Middle range     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -  
                                                                                5.50  6.00  6.50  7.00  7.50  8.00  8.50  9.00  9.50 10.00 10.50 11.00 11.50 12.00 12.50 13.00 13.50 14.00 14.50
                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                
    MATERIAL MOVEMENT AND                                                                                                                                                                       
    CUSTODIAL OCCUPATIONS                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                
Forklift Operators..................     28    $8.51   $8.66   $7.02  ±  $9.68    4     4     7    ±     18    11    ±     32    ±     ±      4    ±     21    ±     ±     ±     ±     ±     ±  
                                                                                                                                                                                                
Warehouse Specialists...............     55     7.59    5.85    5.50  ±   9.72   22    38    ±     ±     ±     ±     ±     ±     11    15    ±     ±     ±     ±      4    ±      4     4     4 

  1 Excludes premium pay for overtime and for work on weekends, holidays, and late shifts.  Also excluded are performance bonuses and lump-sum payments of the type negotiated in the auto and
aerospace industries, as well as profit-sharing payments, attendance bonuses, Christmas or year-end bonuses, and other nonproduction bonuses.  Pay increases, but not bonuses, under
cost-of-living clauses, and incentive payments, however, are included.  See Scope and Method of Survey for definitions and methods used to compute means, medians, and middle ranges.